See also:

• Computers: Algorithms  (329)

• Center for Spoken Language Understanding - Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology has created a public resource for experimenters. Download trial software for speech recognizers.
• comp.speech WWW site - Provides a range of information on speech technology, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech coding, and related material. Pages look a little old (1997) but a very wide range of FAQ here. Algorithm for building simple recognizers.
• Dictation Without Wires or Monitor - Graduate student thesis which may give ideas for difficult environments. Mostly in German, but there is also an English page (click flag). Approach develops a little bit of intelligence between speech recognition and text to speech engine.
• IDIAP Speech Processing Group - Research and development of recognition and understanding techniques for realistic speaking styles and acoustic conditions, as well as speaker verification and identification techniques.
• Museum of Speech Analysis and Synthesis - Pictures of early voice synthesizors hosted by UCSC - site seems always under construction.
• Rapid-Deployment Text-to-Speech in the DIPLOMAT System - Article describing the rapid-deployment Text-to-Speech processes and development timeframe used in the DIPLOMAT System. [PDF]
• Speech Analysis - A detailed paper describing speech recognition technology.
• Speech Informatics Group - Main research directions are speech recognition/understanding, methodology of speech dialogue systems, applied systems, hidden Markov algorithms.
• Speech Language Processing Professional Society - This site acts as a coordinating place for meetings and keeps large database about research in the field. Professional name - COCOSDA.
• SPIRIT Speech Technologies - Has advanced software algorithms for speech compression, enhancement, recognition and speaker identification (i.e., voice recognition).
• Torch Library - A library in C++ for developing Open Source speech and machine learning applications. The code is under the Gnu Public License.
• VOICEBOX: Speech Processing Toolbox for MATLAB - A voice processing toolbox for Matlab, very useful for prototyping algorithms and has routines to do most of the basic useful tasks in speech.