- 20th Annual Avios Conference Announces Best Of Show Awards
Winners of the Best of Show competition at 2001 Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) Conference and the winners of the Best Paper awards.
- Advanced Technology and Research
Markets a variety of speech products for industry including voiceprint, text to speech and airport security systems. Good online text to speech demo.
- Analogue Speech Synthesizers
Comprehensive site reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, and Electro Harmonics, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales.
- AT&T Natural Voices
Features a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site.
- Audio Bookmaker
Converts texts using different human voices, saving speech to WAV or MP3 files. Speaking clock and other text-to-speech utilities.
- Babel Techonologies
Multilingual text to speech technologies for telecom, embedded and multimedia applications. Available in 17 languages.
- CalSoft - White Paper
Brief exploration of the issues of voice enabled application building in enterprises.
- Cepstral Speech Synthesis
Small footprint text-to-speech synthesis suitable for mobile, handheld, and wearable computers. Provides a variety of voices and accents. Effective on line demo of speech quality.
- CompSpeak 2050
Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Culture. The Institute's mission is to study the social, cultural, and philosophical implications of talking computers and voice recognition technology. Site taking orders for a pre-publishing book having a provocative viewpoint on the impact of talking computers.
- CSLU Speech Synthesis
Center for speech synthesis research, with demos and downloads available. Has a singing voice synthesis project.
- DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer
A general-purpose multilingual and polyglot software text-to-speech (TTS) system that supports the Greek language using a wide variety of e-text sources. Free download has an open and component based architecture allowing flexibility, customization and expandability.
- Desktop Text to Speech Utility
CyberBuddy - a freeware utility program that uses MicroSoft Agents to do Instant Messaging with speech and animation, reminders, time of day, check email, news reports, weather, stock quotes, text reading, and ICQ status reporting.
- Digalo TTS engine
Text-To-Speech engine for Microsoft Agent and SAPI compliant applications. Available in 7 languages (French, German, Spanish, US English, British, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese). Download free trial.
- e-rhetor
Develops applications and systems that support the Greek language. Current products include a series of high quality Text-to-Speech products for the telecommunications and multimedia market.
- E-Speech
Unusual text-to-speech synthesis offerings including name pronunciation software for speech recognition dictionaries and other custom applications.
- Elan Speech
Elan Speech, dedicated global provider of text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for telecommunications, multimedia, embedded systems and mobile solutions. Provides 2 ranges of speech synthesis technologies for high quality and low footprint requirements. Many languages and voices available for various platforms and operating systems.
- ESOPOS-Greek TTS
An unusual downloadable program for Win 95/98 that does Greek text-to-speech processing.
- ETeX AG - Text-To-Speech & Voice Recordings
German firm selling text-to-speech solutions, based on unit selection and diphones. ETeX uses its recording studio (specialized for voice recordings) for text-to-speech voices, voice prompts, and spoken manuals.
- Fonix Corporation
Text-to-speech vendor with demo. Free clock application download for PC.
- Fonix SpeakThis
Subscription service that lets you add speech to your website using automatically generated HTML you paste into your pages. Support for many voices and languages.
- FreeTTS - Java speech synthesis
A speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java(TM) programming language. Based upon Flite: a smallrun-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University and derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University.
- French speech synthesis
LAIPTTS is a high-quality speech synthesis for French. Freely downloadable for non-commercial purposes. Small footprint of 350k. Online synthesis demo.
- German speech synthesis
Speech synthesis group at the IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Online demo, speaking metro information system, various speech synthesis example sand some downloads. Research is concentrating on getting good prosidy (inflection).
- Hindi Text To Speech System
Bliss Intelligent Technologies offers Hindi text to speech, Hindi OCR, Hindi speech recognition and IVR systems. Based Jaipur, India.
- Hindi Text-to-Speech Engine
Experimental TTS engine for Hindi language along with application. Ddownload free.
- IBM Text-to-Speech Research
IBM Text-to-Speech (TTS) Research interactive demo, multi lingual, unconstrained.
- InfoQuick Software Technology Corp.
Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.
- Infovox Synthetic Speech
Text to speech for American and British English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Icelandic. Interfaces for MS Windows, Dos, Apple Mac.
- Java Applet for Speech Synthesis
Java applet/software for speech synthesis using the concatenation method. Currently developing formant synthesis version.
- Key2Speak
Text to Speech software will read aloud what is typed, integrates with all Windows applications.
- Matrubhasha
A Unicode and MBROLA based software solution for text to speechsSynthesis (TTS) in Indian languages.
- Mindmaker
Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.
- NeXTeNS: Text-to-Speech for Dutch
The NeXTeNS project aims at developing a modern, clean, multi-platform, open source text-to-speech system for Dutch that is freely available for research and education purposes using Mbrola and Festival components. Initiated by University of Nijmegen and the University of Tilburg.
- Nuance Vocalizer
TTS software. Data sheet, and demos.
- PanaVox Speech Servers
PanaVox is a text to speech technology for acessibility, advertising, and content enhancement which works on narrowband connected computers and requires no specialized software.
- RC Systems
Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information.
- Reading Machine
Reads text aloud using text-to-speech, converts text into mp3/wave files for use with any cd player or MP3 player. Extracts text from one web page or whole web sites. Text is automatically organized into books and chapters for later use. Gives control over the voice, and the ability to clean up text automatically.
- ReadPlease
Text-to-speech software for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP. Freeware and commercial versions.
- Rhetorical Systems
Builds high-quality voices, which in many applications are indistinguishable from the real voices on which they are modeled. The core product, rVoice, has a wide range of synthesized voices including several regional accents and speaking styles. Impressive demo on site.
- Sakrament
Speech recognition and synthesis software company, particularly Russian language.
- Sayz Me
An open-source text-to-speech application for Windows. Uses Microsoft speech API.
- Smart Butler
Add-on for instant messenger programs that enables users to listen to incoming messages without reading them.
- Speak Alaska
Specializes in text to speech for web pages. Also offers products to convert web pages to MP3.
- Speech and Software Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd.
One of India's global IT services and product-engineering companies, providing a wide range of speech-based IT solutions such as automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, computer telephony, IVR, speaker verification and a version of IBM ViaVoice customized for an Indian accent.
- Speech Synthesis Markup Language
The current version of the (draft) proposal for an XML-based Speech Synthesis Markup Language, as part of the W3C's Speech Interface Framework. This is an industry standard in the making.
- Speech-Ware
Danish company selling Danish natural language text-to-speech and speech recognition products.
- SVOX Interactive Text to Speech Demo
Makes an .au file of German (only) text typed at web site.
- Text-to-Speech Screen Reading Software
Software which lets you listen to your computer screen text. Available in both English and Spanish. Free trial.
- The Festvox Project
Free software tools and documentation for building new speech synthesis voices in English and other languages. From Carnegie Mellon.
- The MBROLA PROJECT
Multi-lingual text to speech synthesis. Free multi platform software download for research purposes.
- The Reader
Multilingual text reader using Microsoft Agent and Lernout & Hauspie core components. Download software from site. Demo available.
- TTS Update
Provides side by side audio samples of various commercial text-to-speech synthesis technology vendors as well as state of the art commentary.
- Vaja Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Research and development of Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis at National Electronics and Computer Center. Established in 1998 to research and develope a natural Thai synthesized speech.
- Voice Synthesis IC and Speech Synthesizer chips
TextSpeak(tm) speech synthesis chip sets and plug-in modules accept RS-232 text, keyboard and wireless input. Low cost, unlimited vocabulary, designed for consumer and VARs. Purchase online.
- VoxWorx
Site provides a way to capture the text of any other arbitrary site URL and read it to you via RealAudio technology.
- Web Site Speech Plug-in
Site provides a free, cross platform (Windows and MacOS), cross browser (Netscape and IE) plug-in that gives web sites the ability to talk by transforming text to speech.
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