This category contains links for sites involved in speech synthesis, text to speech processing or vendors selling such things.

i)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.

http://www.atr.net/

ii)Analogue Speech Synthesizers

Comprehensive site reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, Electro Harmonics etc, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales.

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocpage.htm

iii) AT&T Natural Voices

AT&T Labs Natural Voices featuring a line of speech synthesis products. Demos on the site.

http://www.naturalvoices.att.com

iv)Babel Techonologies

Multilingual text to speech technologies for telecom, embedded and multimedia applications. Available in 17 languages.

http://www.babeltech.com/

iv)Bell Labs Text-to-Speech

Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis demo.

http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html

v)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.

http://www.cepstral.com

vi)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.

http://www.compspeak2050.org

vii)CSLU Speech Synthesis

Center for speech synthesis research, with demos and downloads available. Has a singing voice synthesis project.

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tts/index.html

viii)DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer

DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer is 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.

http://www.di.uoa.gr/speech/synthesis/demosthenes/info_gb.shtml

ix)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.

http://thecyberbuddy.com/

x)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.

http://www.digalo.com

xi)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.

http://www.e-rhetor.com

xii)E-Speech

Unusual text-to-speech synthesis offerings including name pronunciation software for speech recognition dictionaries and other custom applications.

http://www.espeech.com

xiii)Elan Text to Speech

Elan is a worldwide provider of advanced text-to-speech technology for automotive, desktop and telecom on many platforms and environments. Interactive demo and free download are available for evaluation of speech quality. Many languages supported - American English, British English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Has Linux offeri

http://www.elantts.com

xiv)Eloquent Technology, Inc.

Offers multi-language text-to-speech system that produces good-quality synthesized speech with reasonable sounding voices and intonation.

http://www.eloq.com

xv)ESOPOS-Greek TTS

An unusual downloadable program for Win 95/98 that does Greek text-to-speech processing.

http://esopos.ee.auth.gr

xvi)Festival Speech Synthesis Systems

A speech synthesis system for Unix and Windows from University of Edinburgh. English, Spanish and Welsh languages supported. Free download.

http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

xvii)Fonix Corporation

Text-to-speech vendor with demo. Free clock application download for PC.

http://www.fonix.com

xviii)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.

http://www.speakthis.com

xix)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.

http://freetts.sourceforge.net

xx)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

http://www.unil.ch/imm/docs/LAIP/LAIPTTS.html

xxi)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).

http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/synthesis/

xxii)InfoQuick Software Technology Corp.

Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.

http://www.infoquick.com.cn

xxiii)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.

http://www.infovox.se

xxiv)Java Applet for Speech Synthesis

Java applet/software for speech synthesis using the concatenation method. Currently developing formant synthesis version.

http://www.say-it-now.com

xxv)JustSpeak

Text to speech system converts any readable computer text into speech and MP3 files. Free online demo.

http://www.justspeak.com

xxvi)Key2Speak

Key2Speak uses speech synthesis technology to read aloud what you type, as you type it. For Microsoft Windows.

http://www.key2speak.com

xxvii)Mindmaker

Sells FlexVoice (TM), a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. Online demo shows good prosidy.

http://www.flexvoice.com/

xxviii)RC Systems

Text to speech synthesis products. Boards, modules, and chips. Downloadable data sheets and product information.

http://www.rcsys.com

xxix)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 cleanup text automaticaly.

http://www.ultimatereadingmachine.com

xxx)ReadPlease

Text-to-speech software for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP. Freeware and commercial versions.

http://www.readplease.com/

xxxi)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.

http://www.rhetoricalsystems.com

xxxii)Sakrament

Speech recognition and synthesis software company, particularly Russian language.

http://www.sakrament-speech.com

xxxiii)Spanish TTS Systems for Windows

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 text cleanup.

http://www.internethablado.com

xxxiv)Speaker - Text to Speech for Konqueror

A text to speech plug in for the KDE desktop file manager under Linux.

http://dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org/~grrussel/speaker.html

xxxv)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.

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/

xxxvi)Speechworks Speechify TTS

Speechworks have commercialised the AT&T speech synthesis system. For serious industrial developers.

http://www.speechworks.com/productsservices/products/speechify/index.c

xxxvii)SVOX Interactive Text to Speech Demo

Makes an .au file of German (only) text typed at web site.

http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/w3svox

xxxviii)The Festvox Project

Free software tools and documentation for building new speech synthesis voices in English and other languages. From Carnegie Mellon.

http://www.festvox.org

xxxix)The MBROLA PROJECT

Multi-lingual text to speech synthesis. Free software download for research purposes.

http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/

xxxx)The Reader

Multilingual text reader using Microsoft Agent and Lernout & Hauspie core components. Download software from site. Demo available.

http://www.thereader.com.ar/

xxxxi)VoxWorx

VoxWorx provides a way to capture the text of an arbitrary site URL and read it to you via RealAudio technology. A interesting work in progress.

http://www.voxworx.com/

xxxxii)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.

http://www.speaksforitself.com

xxxxiii)Web Synthesizer

The Archangelis lightweight plugin produces speech along with web surfing. Free download.

http://www.archangelis.com