Linguistics & Phonetics Worldwide

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last update: Dec 09 1999

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• FAQs
• Speech Demos
• Miscellaneous

Linguistics & Phonetics Worldwide: Table of Contents

FAQs

• AUDIO SPEECH FORMAT FAQ
• comp.speech FAQ
• SPEECH FAQ

Speech Demos

Phonetics
• UCLA Phonetics Lab
  • slow-motion animation of the vocal folds vibrating during speech
  • animation of articulators in motion during speech
• X-ray videos of speech production in English and French (Kevin Munhall, Queen's Univ, Kingston, Canada)

  Synthesis

• Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Text-to-Speech system The site has interactive demos in American English, Mandarin Chinese, and German, and the capability to adjust voice parameters on the fly (English only). Pre-synthesized demos for Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Romanian are also provided.
• AT&T Research Text-to-Speech Site with samples and interactive demos.
• MIT Media Lab Masters thesis, Janet Cahn Expressive speech from DecTalk3 using Af fectEditor to manipulate pitch, timing, voice quality and articulation. 3 examples.
  
• Say TTS demo interactive (University of Twente)
• JavOICe a Java applet which "sonifies" 64 x 64 gifs by treating them as graphs of frequency against time and assigning each pixel in the grid a tone with brightness realized as loudness
• Multilingual TTS from Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg
• Speech Synthesis in French demos of different systems (and links to TTS demos of other languages)
• Text-to-audiovisual-speech acoustic synthesis, visual synthesis and face model
• Synthetic Speech Museum University of Birmingham
• Examples of Synthesized Speech
• Interactive demonstration of Laureate, a text-to-speech system designed to generate high quality natural synthetic speech from normal text, while maintaining high intelligibility. (British Telecom Laboratories)
• AsTeR (LateX to speech demo) at Cornell
• Synthesis examples at KTH, Sweden
• Interactive TTS demo at Duisburg University
• ELIS group Eurovocs commercial TTS examples. American, Dutch, German, French, Spanish 8k and 11k. [200k files!] Synthesiser by Technologie & Revalidatie and TTS by Lernout & Hauspie.
• MBROLA a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones
• YorkTalk synthesis examples from the University of York
• Analogue vowel synthesis examples at ExploraNet, the Exploratorium's World Wide Web server, Palace Of Fine Arts, San Francisco
• Sun Speechacts featuring BBN's Hark recognizer and Centigram's TruVoice synthesizer along with our Swiftus natural language processor
• Speech synthesis at Cambridge. Concatenation of HMM state segments using PSOLA. No hand segmentation required.
• Emacspeak - A Speech output subsystem for emacs by DEC.
• F0 Contour Generation Program PSOLA based resynthesis. Experimental Phonetics, University of Stuttgart.
  

  signal processing and speech recognition

• Speech recognition at Cambridge
• Speech File Processing at UCL Psychology Speech Group

• The whole brain atlas at Harvard University
• Introduction to MRI
• The Computation and Language E-Print Archive
• Electronic Course: Dynamic Semantics Paul J.E. Dekker and David I. Beaver, ILLC, University of Amsterdam
• GIFs for displaying phonetic fonts on the World Wide Web.
• How to put IPA on the Web - a simple hack
• Just as spoken Phonetic transcription tool (for Windows/Truetype); Demo available
• Mayo Clinic
• UBILAB - The Union Bank of Switzerland IT Laboratory HCI stuff - no speech research
• A great collection of dictionaries at University of Passau
• Neural Net Information from TU Eindhoven
• DTI Neural Computing Technology Transfer
• Natural Language Software Registry
• An Ceathramh, a Gaelic learning centre in Scotland The fundamental purpose is to produce speakers of Scottish Gaelic. Sutherland, Scotland
• Speech Synthesis Refs from Melvyl
• The HPSG page at Ohio State University. Includes links to a bibliography on HPSG-related works in BibTeX and LaTeX format, and pointers to implementation efforts.
• The Noam Chomsky Archive
• SAMPA, computer readable phonetic alphabet
• The sounds of the IPA
• Bibliographical Instruments: Linguistics / NLP / Humanities Computing
• Connectionist Natural Language Processing maintained by James Hammerton
• Controlled Languages Home Page, by Willem-Olaf Huijsen of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. Input is welcome
• The rules of Gwoyeu Romatzyh, the system of Chinese Romanization devised by Y.R.Chao that features tonal spelling
• Language in the Judicial Process
• Lojban - a machine parsable constructed language