[tlug] Text-to-Speech links

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

Hello,

At point in the meeting yesterday some of us briefly discussed
text-to-speech software, mostly in the context of Mauro's glove work
and use in Asterix.  In the June edition of Scientific American, there
is a timely article by some IBM researches about text-to-speech
technology.  Below are the links to various companies that are making
text-to-speech products, that are published in the article.

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Acapela Group (Belgium) www.brightspeech.com

Advanced Telecommunications Research [ATR] (Japan) www.slt.atr.jp/ss-e

AT&T (U.S.) www.naturalvoices.att.com (For more voice fonts look at the
research page) http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html

Cepstral (U.S.) www.cepstral.com
Fonix (U.S.) www.fonix.com/page.cfm?name=espeech_dectalk

IBM (U.S.) www.research.ibm.com/tts

iFLYTEK (China) www.iflytek.com/english/products.htm

Infotalk (China, Hong Kong) www.infotalkcorp.com

Loquendo (Italy) www.loquendo.com

Nuance (U.S.) www.nuance.com

Scansoft (U.S.) www.scansoft.com

SVOX (Switzerland) www.svox.com

Toshiba (Japan) www.toshiba.co.jp/rdc/mmlab/tech/w21e.htm

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In addition, I am adding a few open source text-to-speech programs
that I know of.  Perhaps you can help add some more?

Festival : http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
MBROLA : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
EPOS : http://epos.ure.cas.cz/  (although this appears to only have
Czech and Slovak, at the moment)

Cheers,
Zev