Markets a variety of speech products for industry including voiceprint, text to speech and airport security systems. Good online text to speech demo.

Reviewing Vocoders and musical chorus synthesizers by EMS, Moog, Roland, Korg, and Electro Harmonics, talking chips (Votrax, TI) and speech recognition hardware. Information site rather than sales.

Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Culture. The Institute's mission is to study the social, cultural, and philosophical implications of talking computers and voice recognition technology. Site taking orders for a pre-publishing book...

Collection of links and sound-examples of simulated emotional speech by synthesis.

Text-To-Speech engine for Microsoft Agent and SAPI compliant applications. Available in 7 languages (French, German, Spanish, US English, British, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese). Licensed Elan TTS-engine. Download free trial.

German firm selling text-to-speech solutions, based on unit selection and diphones. ETeX uses its recording studio (specialized for voice recordings) for text-to-speech voices, voice prompts, and spoken manuals.

A commented overview of commercial and scientific TTS (text-to-speech) -systems for the German language with examples.

Prosody-filter to simulate emotional arousal with speech synthesis based on the free-for-non-commercial-use MBROLA synthesis engine available in Java.

Focus on speech technology research and development in Chinese language, including TTS and ASR.

A short introduction to speech synthesis with the Java speech API 1.0