Q5.4: Speech Synthesis on the WWW

Most of the following are links to WWW pages with demonstrations of speech synthesis. Plenty more links are included in the detailed list of speech synthesis software/hardware in Q5.5.

Speech Synthesis "Museum"
URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jpi/synth/museum.html
Maintained by Jon Iles (j.p.iles@cs.bham.ac.uk) at the University of Birmingham.
Information and speech samples for
The Festival Speech Synthesis System
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
Pre-synthesized examples in English, Welsh and Spanish, and online demo of English.
Pavarobotti
http://www.shc.uiowa.edu/fun/pavarobotti/pavarobotti.html
WWW demo of the Pavarobotti synthesis technology developed at the National Center for Voice and Speech (http://www.shc.uiowa.edu/ncvs_home.html).
Say...
http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/say
WWW demo of the rsynth speech synthesis software. The WWW capability was implemented by Axel Belinfante.
Musee sonore de la synthese de la Parole en francais
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/exemples_synthese/ex.html
Speech synthesis examples from a series of French language speech synthesisers plus links to other speech synthesis demo pages.
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Text-to-Speech
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/
Demos and samples of the latest Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Text-to-Speech system.
WATSON FlexTalk from AT&T Advanced Speech Products Group
http://www.att.com/aspg/demo.html
WWW interface to the WATSON FlexTalk speech synthesis demonstration.
AT&T Bell Laboratories Voices
http://www.research.att.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mjm/voices.cgi
WWW interface to the AT&T Bell Laboratories text to speech (TTS) synthesizer
Laureate from British Telecom
http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/speech/laureate/
Demo of the Laureate speech synthesis system - not yet commercially available.
ORATOR from Bellcore
Online demo of the ORATOR system developed at Bellcore.
http://www.bellcore.com/ORATOR/
SVOX from TIK, ETH in Zurich
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/w3svox
Demo of German speech synthesis from Institut fur Technische Informatik und Kommunikationsnetze.
Speech Synthesis Research at OGI
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/research/TTS
Examples of diphone speech corpora and algorithms developed at OGI for synthesis of American English and Mexican Spanish using the Festival framework.
Lyricos
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/research/TTS/research/sing.html
Demos of the Lyricos singing voice synthesis system. Concatenation-based synthesis of singing voice from MIDI input.
Multi-Lingual TTS from Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg
http://www.fb9-ti.uni-duisburg.de/demos/speech.html
Synthesis in German, English or Japanese.
TMH: Institutionen for Taloverforing och Musikakustik, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
http://www.speech.kth.se/info/software.html
Synthesis in Swedish, Finish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, British and American English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, LA Spanish and Greek.
Haskins Laboratory WWW Site
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/MISC/special.html
Examples of several types of speech synthesis. Articulatory Synthesis by HyperASY. SineWave Synthesis. Gestural Computational Model. Pattern Playback system of the 1940's!
BeSTspeech from Berkeley Speech Technologies, Inc., (BST)
http://www.bestspeech.com/weblang.html
Eurovocs Multilingual Speech Synthesis
http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/ELISgroups/speech/research/eurovocs.html
Based on Lernout and Hauspie technology.
HADIFIX German Speech Synthesis
http://asl1.ikp.uni-bonn.de/~tpo/Hadiq.en.html
Provided by the Instituts fur Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Universitat Bonn.
Centigram's TruVoice Demo
http://www.centigram.com/centigram/TruVoice/index.html
Allows control of speech rate, pitch and other prosodic charateristics.
MBROLA: Free Speech Synthesis Project
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/modelcmp.html
WWW demo of MBROLA which compares the quality of PSOLA, MBR-PSOLA, LPC, and Hybrid Harmonic/Stochastic concatenative synthesizers. Provided by the TCTS Lab, Faculti Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
Institute of Phonetic Sciences
http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/IFA-Features.html
Links to lots of on-line speech synthesis demonstrations provided by the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Amsterdam.
Yahoo page on speech generation
http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Computer_Science/Artificial_Intelligence/Natural_Language_Processing/Speech_Generation/

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