SOFTWARE DREAMS AND TALKING MACHINES
Speech Command, Control, Recognition and Dictation
VIEWS AND OVERVIEWS
- Computer Speech Technology
Command, Control, Recognition and Dictation
- The Mystery and a Short History of Dragons.
- The Quest -To- Compute without a keyboard or a mouse.
- Yesterday's Technology and Today the Price Is Right.
- Commercial Speech Recognition
- Speech Recognition - Links
- http://www.tiac.net/users/rwilcox/speech.html
- Speech Recognition - Voice Users Group
- Where To Go and Who To Ask About Computer Speech Recognition, Command, Control, and Dictation.
- Selection, And Problem Solution
- Newsgroup
- FAQs
- NSF Interactive System Program Report
- The Center for Spoken Language Understanding - Language and Linguistics [proceedings]
- Linguistic Resource Computing
- Linguistics and Computerized Speech
- http://www.sil.org/linguistics/computing.html
- On line International Examples Of Synthesized Speech
- Multi-Lingual In Wav, Aiff, or AU Format
- NCIP Library
- Technology for the Visually Impaired
- http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/VI_Speech_Access.html
- Telecommunications Collection
- http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/Library_Telecomm.html
- CompSpeech FAQ
- Speech Synthesis And Speech Recognition
- Links, Lists, Products
- Speech Toys Collection
- Site Index
- http://www.speechtoys.com/spchtoys/index.html
- Search Page
- http://www.webcom.com/~spchtoys/search.html
- Speech Recognition Demos and Freeware
- http://www.speechtoys.com/spchtoys/sprec.html
- Synthesizers and Programs
- http://www.speechtoys.com/spchtoys/spsyn.html
- HandiLinks to Software - Voice Recognition
- A comprehensive set of links to voice recognition software packages, listed alphabeticallyby vender.
- http://ahandyguide.com/cat1/s/s730.htm
- Speech Recognition Resources
- Lists references and books on speech recognition.
- http://www.speech.su.oz.au/comp.speech/Section6/Q6.4.html
- Speech Recognition Survey
- A survey of speech recognition technology and discusses two approaches to speech recognition: acoustic-phonetic and pattern recognition.
- http://www.linfield.edu/~dbrewer/spch.html
FEATURED SPEECH RECOGNITION DEMOs
- IBM VOICE TYPE
- Speech Command Recognition And Dictation From Big Blue.
- VOICE PILOT and VOICE KEYBOARD
- Speech Command Recognition And Dictation for Windows 3.+, thru Windows 95+.
- VERBEX SPEECH SYSTEMS
- Speech Command, Recognition, Dictation, and Communications for Windows 3.+, thru Windows 95+.
- Verbex Voice Browser For The Internet.
- VIOSYS
- Verbal Mouse - Verbal Keyboard - Verbal Browser
- http://www.voisys.com/
- KURZWEIL VOICE PAD 1.O
- A Report on the Kurzweil Voice Recognition System for Windows 95
- VOILA TECHNOLOGY
- Speech recognition - Commercial and Personal
http://voila.com/index.html
- WHISPER "FREE" FROM MICROSOFFT RESEARCH - [Free]
- It's all here to Do It Yourself.
- Free can be a very good price.
SOFTWARE DREAMS AND TALKING MACHINES
Text -To- Speech, Screen Readers and Synthesizers
VIEWS AND OVERVIEWS
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- Reference Report On Speech Synthesis Technology
- An extensive report on the available technology for Speech Synthesis
- GUI Access: A Comparison of Screen-Readers
- By Kenneth Frasse
- Access Review Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1997.
- MS Windows 95+ GUI Screen Readers
- Speech World
- Groups From Around The World
- http://lethe.leeds.ac.uk/research/cogn/speechlab/other.html
- Speech Links
- Sources and Resources
- http://squid.eng.cam.ac.uk/comp.speech/Section5/speechlinks.html
- MS Windows Screen Reader List
- Trace Center - Gopher
- gopher://trace.wisc.edu:70/0/ftp/PUB/TEXT/ORGS/MICROSFT/READERS.TXT
- Screen Readers - By Joseph J. Lazzaro
- Information Technology And Disabilities, v2n03
- ftp://ftp.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/stacks/itd/itd-v2n03-lazzaro-job
FEATURED SPEECH DEMOs
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- ELAN SYNTHESIZED SPEECH CD-ROM DEMOs
- A SuperAdaptoid report on the ELAN text -to- speech synthesizers CD-Rom Demo Disk.
- Multi-Lingual
- ETI ELOQUENT TEXT -TO- SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
- ETI Eloquence is a high quality, unlimited vocabulary, text-to-speech synthesis application for Windows and a variety of popular UNIX platforms.
- ETI Eloquence is most noted for exceptionally natural sounding intonation, intelligibility scores higher than other popular TTS engines, and a flexible annotation scheme that allows users to express a whole range of emotions including boredom, anger, and excitement.
- PROTALK SYNTHESIZERS BY BIOLINK
- For Windows 3.+, NT, and 95+
- http://biz.bctel.net/biolink/
- SLIMWARE SPEECH BY PC WHOLEWARE
- Multi Media and Text To Speech
- WinSpeech 3.0, for Windows 3.+, NT, 95+
- http://users.aol.com/WholeWare/index.html
- ASAP AND ASAW BY MICROTALK
- For MS Dos, Windows 3.+, through 95+
- http://www.screenaccess.com/
- PAM, SAM, READER, AND LISTEN2.
- "USER FRIENDLY" PAM and SAM (text -to- speech, appointment secretaries), READER (adaptive, text -to-speech, screen reader), and Listen2 (adaptive and multi- lingual, text -to- speech, screen reader). Review of AFFORDABLE shareware text -to- speech programs for MS Windows 3.1+ through 95+.
- SEEKLINE FOR MS DOS and WINKLINE FOR MS WINDOWS.
- SEEKLINE for MS Dos (adaptive, text -to- speech, screen reader).
- WINKLINE for MS Windows (adaptive, text -to- speech, screen reader).
- ADAPTIVE: "By The Blind And For The Blind".
- MS Dos 3.+, MS Windows 3.1+, NT, through 95+.
- HAL TEXT -TO- SPEECH
- From Dolphine Systems
- Hal For Windows 95
- http://www.dolphin-systems.com/products/brochure/hal95.html
- Hal 5 For DOS
- http://www.dolphin-systems.com/products/brochure/hal5.html
- Model T For Dos [Hal 16 - 1987] - [Free]
- ftp://alternatives.com/library/hehandi/model_t.zip
- COLUMBO SPEECH FOR MS DOS - [Free]
- Karl Dahlke's Software For The Blind Or Disabled
- TRUE SPEECH
- Giving Windows 95 and NT A Voice On The Internet.
- http://www.dspg.com/windows.htm
SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND UTILITIES
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- WHEN YOU CAN'T SPEAK !
- Speakeasy Talks For You.
- Report on SpeakEasy - an Adaptive Alternative for the "Speech- Disabled" and the Severely Physically Disabled.
- Developed for patients of ALS, and other communications debilitating conditions.
- An AFFORDABLE PC compatible MS Windows 3.+ and 95+ based communication aid.
- Requires Monologue or Text Assist text -to- speech.
- Sound Card Required
- ULTRA HAL AND BOB OS
- No, you don't have to wait for 2001
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- You Train - They Learn
- You input to your computer
- Your computer talks back to you
- For MS Dos, Windows 3.+ and 95+
- Sound Card Required for 2-way speech
- TALKEYS - KEYSTROKE VOICE FEEDBACK
- Keyboard Input - Spoken Key Feedback.
- SpkQQ - SOUND DRIVER
- A software alternative to Microsoft sound driver and sound card requirements for adaptive applications.
SOFTWARE DREAMS AND TALKING MACHINES
Text -To- Voice, Voice Command, Voice Recording, Voice File
Compression and Storage, Voice Mail
FEATURED VOICE DEVICE DEMOs
- PC Magazine Search - Results - Voice
- Voice Command, Voice Pads, Voice Browser, Voice Recording, Voice Mail
- PC Magazine Search Results - Speech - Talk
- More Speech and Talking: Synthesizers, Compression, Recording, etc.
- ARISTOTLE - SPEAK AND HEAR MESSAGES IN YOUR VOICE
- Aristotle ... Verbal Audio Data Base
- Cyber Friends, Inc ... Audio Access Web Service Provider
- Cyber Audio Library ... Online State Of The Art Audio Compression.
- Adaptive features are unique and not for everyone.
The Aristotle System can replace most text -based -computer-input and files, with direct voice recording input, audio format, and compression storage.
Rather than text files Aristotle makes and uses audio files.
Aristotle records voice dictation, It is not a voice recognition, command and control, application.
Although Aristotle recording requires minimum keyboard input, transcription transfer of audio to text files still requires manual keyboard typing.
Transforms your computer into a searchable audio recording data system.
- TALKEYS - KEYSTROKE VOICE FEEDBACK
- Keyboard Input - Spoken Key Feedback.
- SpkQQ - SOUND DRIVER
- A software alternative to Microsoft sound driver and sound card requirements for adaptive applications.
- OCR AND SCANNER READING MACHINES
- GO TO: Software Dreams Scanning OCR Technology.
GOOD HUNTING AND ENJOY !
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