Pointers

Speech Synthesis Groups

• ECESS, European Center of Excellence on Speech Synthesis
• ATR Spoken Language Communications Lab, Kyoto, Japan.
• AT&T Shannon Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA.
• CASIA, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of automation, Beijing, China.
• CSLU, Oregon Graduate Institue (OGI), Beaverton, OR, USA
• CSTR, University of Edinburgh, UK.
• DSP Lab, Universität Frankfurt, Germany.
• ELIS Lab, Univesity of Ghent, Belgium
• IAS, Institut für Akustik und Sprachkommunikation, University of Dresden, Germany.
• IBM speech synthesis research group, TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
• iFly Speech Lab, University of Science and Technology of China(USTC), Heifei, China.
• Institut de la Communication Parlée (ICP), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.
• IRCAM Analysis-Synthesis Group, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, France.
• KTH, , Stockholm, Sweden.
• Kobayashi Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
• LTI at CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Microsoft Speech Technology Group, Beijing, China
• Shikano Lab, Nara Istitute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan.
• TCTS Lab, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium.
• Tokuda and Lee Lab, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
• Toshiba Multimedia Labs, Japan
• UCL Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics; London, UK.
• UPC Speech Processing Group, Barcelona, Spain.

Companies selling speech synthesis (those who survived...)

• ACAPELA Group
• Apple
• Cepstral
• e-Rhetor
• Hitachi
• IBM
• iFLYTEK
• Microsoft
• Nuance
• SVOX
• IVONA