Speech Synthesis Links

Online Documents

Raman, T.V. Emacspeak --A Speech Interface
Sami Lemmetty Review of Speech Synthesis Technology
Julie Baca: Comparing Effects of Navigational Interface Modalities On Speaker Prosodics

Synthesizers (Finnish)

TimeHouse Mikropuhe
Sanosse synthesis of aLeksis program.

Other Synthesizers

Festival speech synthesis and Flite - Festival lite.
FreeTTS - a Java-based free synthesizer.
Elan Text-to-Speech
The Epos Speech Synthesis System
Bell labs Text-to-Speech

Other Software

CSLU OGI tools (OGIresLPC, OGIsable etc.)
FestVox - tools for building new Festival voices.

Markup languages for speech synthesis

SSML: A Speech Synthesis Markup Language
STML: The Spoken Text Markup Language
JSML: Java Speech Markup Language
Sable: A project to combine above three to a standard
TalkML: an experimental XML language for voice browsers

Projects

The MBRDICO Project: a talking dictionnary using MBROLA
The MBROLA Project: Towards a Freely Available Multilingual Synthesizer
Prosynth: An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis

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