Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet. http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html
Linguistic Data Consortium - an open consortium of labs, companies and universities. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for speech research and development purposes. Founded by ARPA 1992. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
A multidisciplinary research centre that undertakes application-oriented speech research mainly in the areas of speech recognition and synthesis. Has implemented useful software, like the Festival speech synthesis system. Interested in collaborating with http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
Engages in research and development of speech technologies in a wide range of applications, including speech recognition (Whisper) and speech synthesis (Whistler) and Dr. Who. http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/
The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology. http://www.avios.com/
University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages, thesaurus, pronunciation guide and the complete works of Shakespeare http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition, speech coding, and speech modification). http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~spch/