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Speech Synthesizers


Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies) TTS system. Sound examples and an advanced interactive demo (Requires Java).
Telia Promotor Infovox (Sweden). Sound examples in 11 languages (16bit wav-format). Demo version of Infovox 210 available.
Digital DECtalk TTS system.
AT&T TTS System. Sound examples and an interactive demo. Contains also some recent publications for download.
Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) ORATOR TTS System. Sound examples in au- and wav-format.
BT-Laboratories (British Telecom) Laureate TTS System. Sound examples and interactive demo available.
Eurovocs multilingual text-to-speech synthesizer from Technologie & Relevalidatie. Sound examples in five languages (au-format).
SoftVoice, Inc. SVTTS speech synthesizer. Sound examples with five different voices.
Apple PlainTalk Speech Synthesis System. Several sound examples and free version of PlainTalk for Macintosh computers.
The MBROLA project homepage, TCTS Lab of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium). Sound examples in wav-format.
Multilingual ProVerbe Speech Engine from ELAN Informatique (based on France Telecom CNET PSOLA). Sound examples in five languages, free evaluation version, and free demonstration CD-ROM available from here.
Eloquent Technology, Inc. ETI Eloquence TTS system. Sound examples in wav-format.
AcuVoice, Inc. TTS software. Sound examples in 8-Bit Mu Law PCM Wave format at 8 kHz.
Panasonic CyberTalk TTS system.
Microsoft WHISTLER Trainable TTS System.
SPRUCE High-Level TTS system. Developed at the Universities of Bristol and Essex. Interactive weather forecast demo.
ASEL ModelTalker, University of Delaware, USA. Interactive demo with three voices and seven emotions.
CSLU Speech Synthesis Research Group. Festival TTS System and Lyricos singing system demonstrations.
SVOX German text-to-speech system, Speech Processing Group at TIK, ETH in Zurich. Sound examples and interactive demo.
German speech synthesis system HADIFIX, University of Bonn. Sound examples and interactive demo in German.
CHATR (Generic Speech Synthesis System), ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan. Sound examples in several languages. (Some of the text in Japanese)
Lernout & Hauspie’s TTS/3000 Text-To-Speech product line.
YorkTalk speech generation system under development at the University of York UK.
IPOX All Prosodic Speech Synthesis Architecture, Institute for Perception Research (IPO) and Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory (OUPL). Sound examples.
Mikropuhe synthesizer for Finnish, Timehouse Corporation.
Sanosse synthesis system for Finnish

Links with Sound Examples
Historical demonstrations by Dennis Klatt. (See: Dennis H. Klatt (1987) Review of text-to-speech conversion for English, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 82 (3), pp.737-793.)
Speech Synthesis Museum in Grenoble, France. Sound examples, Audio-Visual TTS examples, and several links to different TTS systems.
List of Speech Synthesis Systems in the University of Birmingham, England.
Speech Synthesis Examples in the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Sound examples in 15 languages.

Link Collections
School of Computer Science, Cernegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. Speech Technology Hyperlinks Page. WWW references, FTP-sites, and newsgroups.
Same kind of link collection in Japan. (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories)
Collection of the speech related web-sites at the University of Essex, England.
Speech synthesis jumpstation, Institute for Perception Research, Netherlands.

On-Line Publications and Texts
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Online.
Speech Group Archive in Essex. Publications between 1969-1994.
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 96 CDROM. Papers in PDF-format.

Other Links
Laboratory of Acoustics and Acoustic Signal Processing at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Laboratory of Computational Engineering at Helsinki University of Technology and their Talking Head.
Cognitive Science department (Cognitiewetenschap) at Nijmegen University, Netherlands.
Resources for Studying Human Speech, University of Washington. Phonetics, synthesizers, links etc.

International Phonetic Association home page. International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for the phonetic representation of all languages.
Speech Synthesis Markup Languages, SSML, CSTR.
Extensible Markup Language, XML, W3C.
To speech synthesis literature. To my laboratory home page. To my personal home page (in Finnish)