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Sensory, Inc. provides low-cost speech recognition technologies for consumer products for the embedded speech recognition market and also offers a software solution for DSPs and microcontrollers.
http://www.sensoryinc.com

Pakistani Electrical Engineer offers basic level of information for implementing speech enabled applications using TAPI, MAPI and WAPI. A starter site for students and beginners.
http://project.uet.itgo.com

Development and distribution site for HTK3, a hidden markov toolkit designed for speech recognition. HTK3 is available for free download as C source. Used at hundreds of research sites world wide.
http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk

Compure develops software technologies to analyze audio. Products: Speak&Find to search for words or phrases (audio mining); ACTNow to detect music, jingles, advertisings, speakers; CoolRec to capture and manage audio data.
http://www.compure.com

Develops and distributes software for speech analysis, speech recognition and Natural Language processing.
http://www.natlantech.com/

Swedish company which develops and licenses a general-purpose software platform, Intelligent Speech Interfaces (TM), involving speech recognition, natural language understanding, and high-quality audio feedback. Targets a wide array of applications ranging from sports to industrial, medicine to inventory control, and entertainment to banking.
http://www.voxi.com/

Real-time application generator for unified messaging systems; supports TAPI, SAPI, sharing information between SQL-databases, emails, web-pages, phones, pagers. Allows development of CTI applications.
http://www.ctmaker.com

Specializes in speech and audio technologies for wired and wireless networks. Variety of image, speech, motion and pattern recognition SDK's.
http://www.nellymoser.com

A software toolset to develop, test, refine, deploy and maintain a speech recognition interface on Microsoft Windows (SAPI 5.0). Takes much of the difficulty and detail out of programming at the API level.
http://www.SpeechStudio.com

Information, software, and support for developing applications, web or otherwise, that you talk with using speech recognition and speech synthesis from Chant Inc.
http://www.speechkit.com

ViaVoice speech recognition (ASR) SDK available here. Also included in RedHat Linux 6.0 (see Application CD). SDK for several platforms.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/sdk_linux.html

A comprehensive suite of tools to enable exploration, learning, and research into speech and human-computer interaction. Very impressive, includes facial animation.
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/

Provides a high-accuracy, small foot-print and noise-robust speech recognition systems, ideal for command and control in noisy environments especially mobile and hand held devices.
http://www.neuvoice.com

Speech recognition tools, packages and consulting services including a desktop Interactive Voice Assistant.
http://www.wizzardsoftware.com

Sells Lyrebird, a graphical development environment that enables non-speech developers to build natural language speech recognition applications using artificial intelligence (AI) processes.
http://www.lyrebirdtechnologies.com

Software and hardware allowing for speech interaction with email software packages such as Outlook Express, Eudora, and Netscape Messenger.
http://www.speaktomail.com/

Producer of a voice application toolkit that aims to be easy to use and quick to deploy.
http://www.terakeet.net/

Offers speech tools SDK for building automatic realtime animation lipsync, closed captioning and annotation applications. Clever downloadable demo animation lipsyncs to your microphone speech or .WAV files.
http://www.annosoft.com

SALT development tool for creating multimodal and speech-enabled accessibile web sites compatible with Dreamweaver MX.
http://www.voicewebstudio.com

Shoot, a speech recognition program that emulates arbitrary keystrokes based on voice commands issued by the user. For controlling games. Win 98 and higher.
http://clans.gameclubcentral.com/shoot/

A speech engine independent TTS component built on the COM specification providing the same set of APIs for accessing any speech engine. An attempt to provide a universal standard for Text to Speech conversions. Free download.
http://phantomspeech.sourceforge.net/phantomspeech.html

A speech enabled email solution based on VoiceXML, can be easily integrated into open speech environments and existing messaging solutions.
http://www.webdynamite.com/

Early speech recognition library for C programmers, site is maintained by the author. It helps with installation and compile troubles and answers questions on the underlying SR techniques.
http://www.qod.de/kiehl/sbrecog/faq.html

Sells visual GUI software which can read text files and save the speech to MP3, MP2, WAV, Ogg Vorbies and VOX formats. Includes mouth motion animation.
http://www.visual-mp3.com/text-to-speech/

Enable applications and Web pages to have voice conversation over the internet protocol (VoIP). It includes VoIP activeX (OCX), VoIP COM DLL, VoIP LIB and VoIP CAB, to provide wide implementation choice.
http://www.vaxvoip.com/

ESDi is a shareware program to allow one or more people at a time talk via PC. Designed to run on LANs. Free trial.
http://www.enigmasoftwaredevelopments.com

e-Speaking offers desktop command and control speech recognition software compatible with and complementary to Windows XP and Windows 2000. A fully functional version can be downloaded for free containing over 100 built-in commands.
http://www.e-Speaking.com

A large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system/tool kit under development at the University of Colorado, Center for Spoken Language Research.
http://cslr.colorado.edu/beginweb/speech_recognition/sonic.html

Blog for Microsoft Speech Server, VBSalt, and speech application development.
http://silentsoftware.blogspot.com/

Offers Clear Voice Capture (CVC) software for noise cancellation, echo cancellation, elimination of background noise. Improves speech recognition, voice intelligibility especially for embedded solutions.
http://www.claritytechinc.com/

A research and development company specializing in speech and language engineering for Polish. Offers open source tools.
http://polfonetika.com

Founded in Athens (Greece) in 1991 under the auspices of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development. Language tools, Greek text to speech, language processing.
http://www.ilsp.gr

Speech Technology Magazine is recognized worldwide as the leading source of information on speech technology solutions that are changing communications and technology needs of organizations worldwide.
http://www.tradepub.com/free/st

SFS provides a computing environment for conducting research into the nature of speech. It comprises free software tools; special file and data formats; subroutine libraries for I/O, signal processing and graphics; use and documentation standards; and special programming languages.
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Speech Filing System  Windows is a free computing environment for PCs for conducting research into the nature of speech. It comprises software tools, file and data formats, subroutine libraries, graphics, special programming languages and tutorial documentation. It performs standard operations such as acquisition,...
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/