SP Links

This is a collection of links to material that was relevant for the SP (Speech Processing) part of the course Subareas of Natural Language Processing (in Swedish: Språkteknologiska delområden) that is being taught at the department of Linguistics at the University of Uppsala.

General Information

A Brief Survey of Speech Recognition Technology

A short introduction to speech recognition by David Brewer.

Speech Analysis

Lecture notes on speech analysis for the class with the same name by Tony Robinson.

Spoken Output Technologies

A chapter on Speech Synthesis in the book Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology written by different authors.

FAQ comp.speech

The list of Frequently Asked Questions for the newsgroup comp.speech.

Text to Speech Demos

Text-to-Speech Synthesis

A demo from Lucent Technologies at Bell Laboratories in the USA (English with extra features, German, Chinese).

Speech synthesis

A demo from the University of Duisburg in Germany (German?, English and Japanese).

Serveur de synthàse COMPOST

A demo from the Institut de la Communication Parlée Grenoble in France (French).

TMHs interactive multi-lingual text-to-speech service

A demo from KTH in Stockholm Sweden (English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish).

A larger list of speech demos on the web can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions list of the newsgroup comp.speech (answer Q5.4).