Speech Technology

Speak Freely for Windows - A free Internet "phone" program for talking to someone PC-to-PC over a network, i.e., a voice chat program. No banner ads. Features encryption hooks, "answering machine," text chat, cross platform versions for Unix/Linux. Optional facility for a buddy addressing server to list who else is on-line similar to the "commercial" instant messaging programs. Integrates with ICQ. Good voice quality. Optional C++ source code (free) for those interested in learning about with Internet speech protocols.
http://www.speakfreely.org/

Agilingua, LLC. - Provides an integrated Software Development Kit (SDK) for the development of spoken dialogue system that supports the entire development process. Products, solutions, services, developer information, and support.
http://www.agilingua.com/

Terakeet - Speech recognition application experts specializing in development and deployment of speech recognition systems primarily in call centers.
http://www.terakeet.net/

Natural Language Recognition - Simplis, Inc, provides a Java based "natural language" speech recognition interface designed to simplify access to existing programs and web applications.
http://www.freewebs.com/simplis/

MRecord - Provides voice recognition and medical transcription services and solutions to health care centers, medical offices, and doctors. Products and services, news, partners, and client login.
http://www.mrecord.com/

Breveon - Develops and markets medical speech-recognition tools for healthcare professionals to use in dictation, transcription, and clinical data management. Product information, services, news, and support information.
http://www.breveon.com/

Voice Recognition System - Software for warehouse voice-driven logistics. Case studies, system overview, and benefits.
http://www.voice-recognition-systems.co.uk/

GameVox - Offers a voice command software utility for gamers.
http://www.gogamevox.com

G2 Speech - Provider of customised speech recognition and digital dictation systems for the medical and legal sectors. Has operations in Holland and the UK.
http://www.g2speech.com

Verbatim Careers Institute - Offers training for careers made possible by advances in speech recognition technology. Application, program details, and career information.
http://www.voicewritingcareers.com/

Language and Computing - Provides natural language processing solutions to companies and organizations active in the fields of healthcare, life sciences, and knowledge management. Development center, product listing, demos, new and events, and grant information.
http://www.landcglobal.com/

IBM Software - Speech Recognition - Big Blue's ViaVoice offerings in the desktop continuous speech dictation arena. Competes with Dragon Systems. Has mobile dictation and telephony products as well. Has continuous speech recognition for the Apple Macintosh.
http://www.software.ibm.com/speech/

Digital Speech Algorithms - Provides digital speech algorithms for personal computers and embedded platforms. Product overviews and news.
http://dspalg.com/

Rubidium Ltd. - Supplies speech processing chips and solution for resource constrained consumer applications, including speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), biometric speaker verification, speech compression and speech detection. News and events, technology information, and downloads.
http://www.rubidium.com/

Philips Speech Processing - Worldwide provider of speech recognition solutions for telephony, voice portals, automotive and consumer embedded systems, medical and legal dictation with multi-lingual capabilities. SDK's available for inclusion of speech recognition in business systems.
http://www.speech.philips.com/

ASR Gooyesh Pardaz Co. - Develops speech processing and speech recognition systems. News, products, partners, research and development and support information.
http://www.asr-gooyesh.com

Voice Technology in Warehouse Management - Guide to the use of speech technology in warehouse management systems. FAQs, white papers and articles.
http://www.voicepicking.com/

Speechworkers - Provides Arabic and English speech enabled solutions for telecom operators and service providers, text to speech and speech recognition applications and solutions. Technology overview, news and press releases, and partner programs.
http://www.speechworkers.com

Conversay - Sells application specific speech enabled products including voice responsive browsers, office messaging system, speech SDK's for mobile devices, telephony speech servers.
http://www.conversay.com/

Sautrela Project - Modular and pluggable open source framework focused on speech recognition. Obtain software, documentation, and license information.
http://www.sautrela.es/

VoVision LLC - Hosted software solutions for phone, IP phone and voicemail transcription and dictation. Product and reseller information, and press releases.
http://www.vovision.com/

HAL Hits the Home - Voice recognition software (with product names HAL2000) for Windows 95/98 that supports air conditioning, telephony, infrared, Internet, X-10 and security - for use in home systems. Site gives audio examples of the interactions possible.
http://www.automatedliving.com/

HighBridge Communications - Provides speech recognition solutions to small and medium-sized companies. Offers technology overview.
http://www.high-bridge.com

VoiceWizard - Site addressing typical questions executives might have about speech recognition for offices and companies. Contains product reviews, installation guidelines, provocative analysis of the industry for people who would rather use voice technology instead of typing.
http://www.voicewizard.com

Speech Technology Magazine - Online edition of the magazine, plus information on an annual 'SpeechTEK' speech technology business exposition.
http://www.speechtek.com/

Parus Interactive - Speech-enabled customer care solutions. Products, solutions and services, and company information.
http://www.parusinteractive.com/

Speech Computing - Speech recognition user group forum.
http://www.speechcomputing.com/

Guardian Business Solutions, Inc. - Warehouse applications using voice, wireless, and wearable technologies to provide automation and productivity solutions for warehouse management, distribution, and manufacturing systems. Partnered with Syvox.
http://www.gbsvoice.com

WinScribeUSA - Transcription equipment and software solutions for government, law enforcement, law firms, healthcare, insurance, financial organizations and transcriptionists.
http://www.winscribeusa.com

nFlow Digital Dictation Software - Supplier of digital dictation software for legal and accountancy. News, listing of partners, and customer information.
http://www.nflow.com/

Aurix Speech Analytics and Phonetic Audio Mining Software - Provides speech analytics and audio mining solutions that can be tailored to the media/broadcast, financial, security and call center markets. Company overview, market sectors, information on products/services.
http://www.aurix.com

SpeechVibe - Speech recognition for the Windows operating system.
http://www.speechvibe.com/

Dialogue Machine - Develops and hosts speech recognition applications. Provides hosting fee rather than up front cost.
http://www.dialoguemachine.com/

Disaggregate Consulting - Consulting services for speech technology: architecture, technical advice, software development, and education. Technology information, services, books, and publications.
http://www.disaggregate.com/

Voice Technologies - Provider of speech recognition, digital dictation and workflow management solutions. Offers news, client information, products and services, and voice technology.
http://www.voicetechnologies.co.uk/

Excellence in Embedded Speech - Provides text-to-speech based speech output solutions for the automotive and mobile industries. Product and services information, technology overview, and news and events.
http://www.svox.com/

Voicebrook - Implements speech technology solutions for healthcare enterprises. Offers description of products and services, support information, and employment opportunities.
http://www.voicebrook.com/

GritTec Laboratory - Research and development of the unique algorithms in the field of DSP, speech and audio processing. Research focused on speaker identification (voice biometric), speech enhancement (noise cancellation), speech concealment (PLC), speech recognition, and speech synthesis (audio effects).
http://www.grittec.com/

CatchWord Language and Speech Technologies - Develops multi-lingual voice portals. Products include speech recognition, audio-mining and speech corpora in South African languages. Services, product information, and employee profiles.
http://www.catchwordlst.co.za

Speech Technology Center - Russian organization providing unusual variety of speech processing products and services for research and development, speech recognition, voice verification, speaker identification, noise reduction in speech signals, noise cancellation, forensic examination, audio analysis, logging and communication channel protection.
http://www.speechpro.com

Hand Held - Provider of a large-vocabulary continuous speech recognizer that runs on a PDA. Offers a voice enabled address book for Win 95, Win 98, Win NT, Win CE, Win XP, and Pocket PC.
http://www.handheldspeech.com/

GyrusLogic, Inc. - Provides solutions in automating conversational dialog and natural language understanding applications either in voice and/or text. References, partners, and news.
http://www.GyrusLogic.com/

SpeechCycle - Provides call center automation technology to resolve technical support problems over the telephone. Implements natural language speech recognition. News, products, technology, customers, and a weblog.
http://www.speechcycle.com/

Mobilethink - Develops mobile phone speech solutions that are integrated with Internet information systems. News, product information, and employment opportunities.
http://www.mobilethink.dk

Speech Recognition News and Studies - TMA Associates publishes Speech Recognition Update, an industry newsletter on the business, products, markets, and companies in speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speaker verification. The site contains headlines and recent news, as well as descriptions of TMA conferences and market studies in speech recognition.
http://www.tmaa.com

vozZup - Provides solutions for modern self-service applications. Expertise covers all aspects of speech recognition systems, ranging from voice user Interface design, to VoiceXML applications built on modern application frameworks. News and listing of current projects.
http://vozZup.com/

Voxware - Provides voice-based technology that enables warehouse workers to achieve higher levels of productivity and accuracy while reducing operational costs.
http://www.voxware.com

Talking Desktop - Speech recognition, text-to-speech software transforms a Windows computer into a conversational desktop companion. Provides dictation, web navigation, voice email, web cams, on-line news, weather maps, stock ticker, X10 home automation, MP3 music player, 3D avatar, disabilities features. Project in progress.
http://www.talkingdesktop.com

Warehouse Management Voice Technology Solutions - BCP's Accord warehouse management system uses speech technology to provide voice directed picking, goods receiving, pallet movements, and stock checking. Fully integrated voice software enables real-time interaction with the system.
http://www.bcpsoftware.com/solutions/voice/

Speech Interface Design - Turn-key industrial speech recognition solutions supplier. News and events, company history, and support information.
http://www.speech-interface.com/

VoxIQ - Provides technology for continuous conversational speech applications. Client services, markets, and news. United Kingdom.
http://www.voxiq.com

SpeechStorm - Provider of hosted speech recognition applications. Press releases, partners, and delivery options.
http://www.speechstorm.com

Vox Generation - Provider of speech enabled solutions and speech enabled interfaces to business applications for use in enterprises in the public and private sector. Company profile, customer listing, online demos, and news.
http://www.voxgeneration.co.uk/