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

    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

    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

    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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