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From: andrewh@fortis.speech.su.oz.au (Andrew Hunt)
Subject: Re: information request about ESPS/Waves
Message-ID: <Cpnx4D.16A@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Keywords: speech files handling
Sender: andrewh@fortis (Andrew Hunt)
Nntp-Posting-Host: fortis.speech.su.oz.au
Organization: Speech Technology Group, Sydney Uni
References:  <1994May11.062129.16599@news.cs.tut.fi>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 23:55:24 GMT
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In article <1994May11.062129.16599@news.cs.tut.fi>, cristina@cs.tut.fi (Dr{ghici Cristina) writes:
> I am very interested in obtaining information about ESPS/Waves package:
> who is the vendor, prices, facilities, etc.

From the FAQ posting...

Package: Entropic Signal Processing System (ESPS) and Waves
Platform: Range of Unix platforms.
Description: ESPS is a very comprehensive set of speech analysis/processing 
	tools for the UNIX environment.  The package includes UNIX commands, 
	and a comprehensive C library (which can be accessed from other 
	languages).  Waves is a graphical front-end for speech processing.  
	Speech waveforms, spectrograms, pitch traces etc can be displayed, 
	edited and processed in X windows and Openwindows (versions 2 & 3).
	The HTK (Hidden Markov Model Toolkit) is now available from Entropic.
	HTK is described in some detail in Section 5 of this FAQ - the
	section on Speech Recognition.
Cost:   On request.
Contact: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington Research Laboratory,
	600 Pennsylvania Ave, S.E. Suite 202, Washington, D.C. 20003
	(202) 547-1420.  email - info@wrl.epi.com

I suggest you contact Entropic at the email address above for
more detailed information.


In article <1994May11.062129.16599@news.cs.tut.fi>, cristina@cs.tut.fi (Dr{ghici Cristina) writes:
> I am also open to information about similar products for speech
> files handling, playing parts of the speech file, editing, which 
> uses label file(s).

Check the FAQ posting.  It lists about 8 different speech processing
and signal processing environments.  The FAQ is posted every 4 weeks 
to comp.speech, comp.answers & news.answers.

It is also available for anonymous ftp from the comp.speech archive site
	svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/comp.speech/FAQ
It is also available from the news.answers ftp site (and its mirrors) in
	rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/comp-speech-faq
It is also available by sending email to <mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu> with
	send usenet/news.answers/comp-speech-faq/*
	in one line of the body of the message.

Hope that helps,

Andrew Hunt
 ---
Speech Technology Research Group		Ph:  61-2-692 4509
Dept. of Electrical Engineering			Fax: 61-2-692 3847
University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia	email: andrewh@speech.su.oz.au
