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From: andrewh@speech.su.oz.au (Andrew Hunt)
Subject: Reminder: comp.speech FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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                       comp.speech

       Frequently Asked Questions - Weekly Reminder
       ============================================

A FAQ posting is available for the comp.speech newsgroup.  It answers
some commonly asked questions on Speech Technology and provides details
on a range of speech technology software and products.  Please check the
FAQ before posting a request for information.  The list of software and
products and the FAQ contents are included below.

This reminder is posted every week.  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-complete
     OR svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/comp.speech/FAQ-part[123]
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.


========================== Information ================================

Information is provided on a range of software, hardware and resources.

    Speech Data
	Phonemic Samples
	Homophone List
	Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) - Speech Data
	Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)
	PhonDat - A Large Database of Spoken German
	Oxford Acoustic Phonetic Database

    Speech Processing Environments
	SpeechViewer II
	Entropic Signal Processing System (ESPS) and Waves
	CSRE: Canadian Speech Research Environment
	OGI Speech Tools from the Center for Spoken Language 
	Matlab plus Signal Processing Toolbox
	Signalyze 3.0 from InfoSignal
	Kay Elemetrics CSL (Computer Speech Lab) 4300
	MacSpeech Lab II (MSL II)
	N!Power
	Ptolemy
	Khoros
	SpeechViewer II

    Other Resources
	Network Audio System Release 1.1
	CMU Dictionary
	Another Dictionary
	NEVOT (1.4v) from AT&T BL
	Human Audio Perception Document
	Auditory Toolbox for Matlab
	2 Auditory Modellers

    Audio I/O Hardware
	Sun standard audio port (SPARC 1 & 2)
	Ariel Signal Processors
	IBM RS/6000 ACPA (Audio Capture and Playback Adapter)
	Sound Galaxy NX , Aztech Systems
	Sound Galaxy NX PRO, Aztech Systems
	8 Kbit/s CELP on the TMS320C5x family of DSP chips.
	ATI Stereo F/X Sound Board
	Various PC Sound Cards

    Compression Software and Hardware
	File format conversion
	shorten - a lossless compressor for speech signals
	32 kbps ADPCM
	GSM 06.10 Compression
	G.721/722/723 Compression
	G.728 Compression
	U.S.F.S. 1016 CELP vocoder for DSP56001
	CELP 3.2a & LPC

    Natural Language Processing
	Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) - NLP Tools
	Part of Speech Tagger

    Speech Synthesis
	ORATOR Text-to-Speech Synthesizer
	Text to phoneme program (1, 2, 3, 4)
	"Speak" - a Text to Speech Program
	TheBigMouth - a Text to Speech Program
	TextToSpeech Kit
	SGI Developers Toolbox Synthesiser
	rsynth
	SENSYN speech synthesizer
	spchsyn.exe
	CSRE: Canadian Speech Research Environment
	Eloquence (currently an alpha release)
	JSRU
	Klatt-style synthesiser
	DECTalk
	Speech Manager and PlainTalk
	Various Mac Speech Output Applications
	MacinTalk
	Monolog
	Lernout & Hauspie Text-To-Speech SDK
	Tinytalk
	Narrator - narrator.device
	Infovox
	Bliss

    Speech Recognition
	HM2007 - Speech Recognition Chip
	Voice Blaster Ver. 4.0
	Votan
	HTK (HMM Toolkit) - From Entropic
	DragonDictate version 3.0
	DragonVoiceTools
	IBM Personal Dictation System 
	VoiceServer for Windows
	IN3 Voice Command for Windows
	IN3 Voice Command
	Phonetic Engine 400 (PE400) - Speech Systems, Inc.
	SayIt
	Kurzweil Voice for Windows
	D6006 Voice Control Processor
	Speech Commander - Listen for Windows
	Voice-Trek 2.0
	Visus SpeechKit.
	recnet
	Lotec Speech Recognition Package
	Myers' Hidden Markov Model software
	Voice Command Line Interface
	DATAVOX - French
	PowerSecretary
	Creative VoiceAssist


============================ Contents =================================

SECTION 1 - General
 
Q1.1: What is comp.speech?
Q1.2: Where are the comp.speech archives?
Q1.3: Common abbreviations and jargon.
Q1.4: What are related newsgroups and mailing lists?
Q1.5: What are related journals and conferences?
Q1.6: What resources are available as handicap aids?
Q1.7: What speech data is available?
Q1.8: Speech File Formats, Conversion and Playing.
Q1.9: What "Speech Laboratory Environments" are available?
Q1.10: Miscelaneous Software and Other Resources.
 
SECTION 2 - Signal Processing for Speech
 
Q2.1: What sampling do I need for speech?
Q2.2: How do I find the pitch of a speech signal?
Q2.3: How do I find the start and end points of a speech signal?
Q2.4: Where can I find FFT software?
Q2.5: What signal processing techniques are used in speech technology?
Q2.6: What speech sampling and signal processing hardware can I use?
Q2.7: How do I convert to/from mu-law format?
 
SECTION 3 - Speech Coding and Compression
 
Q3.1: Speech compression techniques.
Q3.2: What are some good references/books on coding/compression?
Q3.3: What software is available? (Includes CELP & G.7xx)
 
SECTION 4 - Natural Language Processing
 
Q4.1: What are some good references/books on NLP?
Q4.2: What NLP software is available?
 
SECTION 5 - Speech Synthesis
 
Q5.1: What is speech synthesis?
Q5.2: How can speech synthesis be performed?
Q5.3: What are some good references/books on synthesis?
Q5.4: What software/hardware is available?
 
SECTION 6 - Speech Recognition
 
Q6.1: What is speech recognition?
Q6.2: How can I build a very simple speech recogniser?
Q6.7 contains information on public domain speech recognition software:
Q6.2: What does speaker dependent/adaptive/independent mean?
Q6.3: What does small/medium/large/very-large vocabulary mean?
Q6.4: What does continuous speech or isolated-word mean?
Q6.5: How is speech recognition done?
Q6.6: What are some good references/books on recognition?
Q6.7: What speech recognition packages are available?
 
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
