Haskins Laboratory at Yale University  
   Concentrates on speech synthesis, speech perception.
   http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/MISC/special.html

Cassette of Phonetic Sounds  
   For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.
   http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/cassette.htm

The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing  
   University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare
   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

International Phonetic Association  
   Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.
   http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

Univ. Of Pennsylvania Speech Resource  
   Linguistic Data Consortium - an open consortium of labs, companies and universities. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for speech research and development purposes. Founded by ARPA 1992.
   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

Speech Technology Research Resource List  
   List of web sites related to phonetics and speech sciences: meetings, research centers, electronic newsletters, journals and publishers
   http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/Other_pages.html#Meetings

WASPAA'97 Home page  
   IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.
   http://www.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/waspaa97/

Tempus-3D  
   An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.
   http://www.frye.com/products/tempus/tempus.html

Conversational Computer - Weather - Jupiter  
   An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives the weather in 500+ worldwide cities in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
   http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications/jupiter.html

Conversational Computer - Air Flights - Pegasus  
   An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives airplane flight arrival times in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.
   http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications/pegasus.html

Conversational Computers - Potpourri  
   The complete collection of MIT Spoken Language Systems Group conversational computers including ones that tell you about Boston area restaurants, Boston traffic conditions, automobile claasified ads, and air flight prices.
   http://www.sls.lcs.mit.edu/sls/whatwedo/applications.html

Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs  
   Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.
   http://www.astrl.org

Nespole  
   "Negotiating through SPOken Language in E-commerce" project aims at contributing to the promotion of economic growth in the e-commerce and e-service area by improving speech to speech translation systems. Italian based research project has Europ
   http://nespole.itc.it

Microsoft Speech Technology Group  
   Engages in research and development of speech technologies in a wide range of applications, including speech recognition (Whisper) and speech synthesis (Whistler) and Dr. Who.
   http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/

Russian Speech Database  
   Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.
   http://www.stel.ru/speech/speech_database.htm

National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources  
   Boston University resource for experimantal and analyzed data (especially from native signers of ASL) to facilitate linguistic and computational research on signed languages and the gestural components of spoken languages.
   http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/cslgr/

Speech Synthesis Papers  
   Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.
   http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~alex/

VoiceXML Italian User Group  
   Developers exchange information, solutions, read news and meet other developers and people interested in Voice and Speech recognition technology. Mixed English/Italian site.
   http://www.vxmlitalia.com/

Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium  
   Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification).
   http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~spch/

Centre for Speech Technology Research  
   A multidisciplinary research centre that undertakes application-oriented speech research mainly in the areas of speech recognition and synthesis. Has implemented useful software, like the Festival speech synthesis system. Interested in collaborating with
   http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk

Speech Synthesis and Emotion  
   Doctoral research by Richard Stibbard at the University of Reading, England on emotions in human speech and its applicability to speech synthesis.
   http://www.geocities.com/richardstibbard/

Speech Processing and Signal Analysis Group FEL CTU  
   Czech Technical University research focusing on enhancement of speech in the running car environment, speech recognition and to creating of databases of natural language. Demo available for doing spectral subtraction on your own data.
   http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/speechlab/

AVIOS  
   The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.
   http://www.avios.com/

IHear Machine Hearing Research  
   Services, products and information to enable hearing in machines. Includes some demos and details of models of complex sound pattern recognition.
   http://www.ihear.com

Spoken Language Technology at TIFR  
   Recognition and synthesis of spoken Indian languages at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Speech workshop scheduled for Jan 2003.
   http://speech.tifr.res.in

Voice Web Community  
   Directory of sites, content, and user groups promoting voice on the web from VoiceXML to SALT.
   http://www.voicewebcommunity.com

Speed of Sound, Inc.  
   Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems.
   http://www.speedofsound.biz

ShortTalk  
   An unusual method of composing and editing text by speech using shorthand command structures. Includes EmacsListen, a spoken interface for Dragon/Scansoft Naturally Speaking used with emacs text editor.
   http://www.research.att.com/~klarlund/ShortTalk/

Speech Module of an AI Mind  
   A design for the speech recognition portion of a robot. Source code and theory.
   http://mind.sourceforge.net/speech.html

Pfstar Project  
   European research consortium investigating multisensorial interaction. Two year project examining technologies for speech-to-speech translation, the detection and expressions of emotional states, and core speech technologies for children begins Oct 2002.
   http://pfstar.itc.it

Mathematical Modeling of Prosody  
   A tutorial on intonation modeling and prosody, along with research papers and results.
   http://prosodies.org

VoiceXML WOZ  
   The WOZ (Wizard of Oz) experiment is a method used to help the developers verify their dialog models. Also a multimodal implementation for VoiceXML is given. Free binaries and source code.
   http://liawww.epfl.ch/~portabel/dialogue/

Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group  
   Project is investigating non-visual, speech only user interfaces, especially focusing on how the interface design can make up for errors in recognition. Primarily Finnish lanquage will be used.
   http://www.cs.uta.fi/research/hci/spi/

Multi-modal Input - White Paper  
   Outlines the opportunities to synergistically integrate physical and spoken input.
   http://tim.griffins.ca/writings/voice_body.html

Speech synthesis and prosody papers  
   Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis, intonation, prosody, natural language, talking robots.
   http://www.di.uoa.gr/~dspiliot/

Farsi speech research  
   Speech processing in Farsi, especially speech enhancement, by Saeed Ayat, Tehran
   http://mehr.sharif.edu/~ayat

TC-STAR Project:  
   Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project, partners, public documents and news.
   http://www.tc-star.org

STTS S�dermalms talteknologiservice  
   Specializes in research and development in speech and language technology, computational linguistics. Based in Stockholm.
   http://stts.se

Greek Dictation  
   From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.
   http://www.telecom.tuc.gr/~ntsourak/logotypographos.htm

(USA) Responsive Virtual Human Technology  
   An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters.
   http://www.rvht.info