Resources pertaining Research from our Speech Technology category

(USA) Responsive Virtual Human Technology - An NSF funded project led by Research Triangle Institute studying spoken language interaction with virtual characters.

AASS Mobile Robotics Lab - University of Orebro

ACE: Artificial Conversation Entity - Free download which receives input from a microphone and responds

ACM Sigmobile - The homepage of the ACM Special Interest Group for Mobile Computing. A well respected research association in the area of mobile and wireless technology research.

Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Centre - Middlesex University group specializing rehabilitation robotics

ADVOCATE Project - European IST project whose goal is to design an open

AG Technische Informatik - Based at the University of Bielefeld. Main research topics include biorobotics

ANU Robotic Systems Lab - Based at the Australian National University. RSL undertakes research projects with real robots working in the real world

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory - AIROLAB is part of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. The lab specializes in the software aspects of agent design and implemented of agent architectures are on various robots.

Artificial Muscle Research Institute - The goal of the institute is to develop

Artificial Perception Group - Research topics include architecture for multi-sensor integration and artificial perception

Assistive Speech Technology Research Labs - Minnesota based research startup. Exploring possibilities for people with disabilities through the research of speech technology.

Australian Centre for Field Robotics - University of Sydney group concerned with the application of advanced control

Australian Research Network in Robotics - Aids the sharing of resources and ideas between robotics groups in Austraila by summarising current projects and facilities throughout the country. Site also has a list of robot-related events.

Automatic Control & Systems Engineering - University of Sheffield group specializing in intelligent systems and control

Automation and Robotics Research Institute - ARRI is a University of Texas at Arlington research group specializing in design

Autonomous Systems at GMD - Research groups include Adaptive Systems

Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute - AUSI is a not-for-profit research institute focused on promoting commercial applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

AVIOS - The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) is a research group dedicated to "real world" applications using speech technology.

Bilkent University Robotics & Sensing Laboratory - Specializes in sensor data fusion for mobile robots. Based at Bilkent University in Ankara

Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center - Topics include biological control systems

Biomimetic Robotics Lab at Stanford University - Research on developing a new class of biologically inspired robots that are substantially more compliant and stable than current robots.

Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program - Northeastern University Marine Science Center program sponsored by DARPA and ONR. Focuses on autonomous underwater robots. Biomimetic neurotechnology is being used to create Lobster and Lamprey Robots.

Brain-Computer interface - Allows real time brainwave activity to control digital video movies

BU Intelligent Mechatronics Lab - Boston University group that specializes in medical robotics

Caltech Robotics Group - Research topics include sensor based motion planning

Cassette of Phonetic Sounds - For speech researchers interested in a standard for phonetic sounds. From University College of London.

CEDRA - Center of Excellence in Design - Robotics and Automation

Center for Distributed Robotics - Located at the University of Minnesota

Center for Intelligent Robotics - CRI is a UNINOVA research group that specializes in sensorial systems

Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue - Non-profit research center based at the University of Florida. Led by Robin Murphy CRASAR develops robotic technologies to assist search and rescue teams.

Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems - University of Kentucky

Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems - Multi-disciplinary research group at Utah State University that focuses on the design

Centre for Autonomous Systems - Based at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm. The centre does research in (semi-) autonomous systems including mobile robot systems for manufacturing

Centre for Speech Technology Research - A multidisciplinary research centre that undertakes application-oriented speech research mainly in the areas of speech recognition and synthesis. Has implemented useful software

CESAR Robotics - Part of the Center for Engineering and Science Advanced Research at Oak Ridge Laboratory. Specializes in multi-robot learning

Charité Surgical Navigation and Robotics Lab - Engineers

CLAWAR - The European network for CLimbing And WAlking Robots. Site includes newsletter

CMU Robotics Institute Manipulation Lab - Research into the fundamental mechanics of manipulation

CMU Sensor Based Planning Lab - Specializes in topological simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques as well as the development of highly-articulated snake robots

CMU TeamBots Multirobot control systems - Lists resources and software that have been developed as part of the CMU research project in multi robot control methods.

Coda and Odyssey - Experimental projects in mobile information access.

Cognitive Robotics at GMD - German National Research Center robotics group. Research areas include multi-robot cooperation

Coimbra Institute of Systems and Robotics - Specializes in robotics vision

Computer Vision and Robotics Research Group - University of Alberta group. Research topics include dexterous manipulation

CoMRoS - Cooperative Mobile Robot Systems - Group based at the University Stuttgart

Control Systems Engineering Group - Research areas include intelligent control and decision making; distributed

Controlling a multi-legged virtual character by human motion-capture-data - A diploma thesis by Torsten Haggenmiller about retargetting human motion capture data to multi-legged virtual characters in realtime.

Conversational Computer - Air Flights - Pegasus - An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives airplane flight arrival times in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.

Conversational Computer - Weather - Jupiter - An MIT Spoken Language Systems research project which gives the weather in 500+ worldwide cities in response to voice inquiries. Toll free number listed at site.

Conversational Computers - Potpourri - The complete collection of MIT Spoken Language Systems Group conversational computers including ones that tell you about Boston area restaurants

Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory - Research topics include computer vision

CSIRO Mining Automation - Research into the issues relating to automation of mining. Projects include automated digital terrain mapping

Cyber Behaviour Research Center - Articles

Cybernet Systems Corporation - A commercial research and development lab specializing in software intelligence

Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems - Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz researching topics that include suitable modeling and control approaches and control-oriented process analysis and design.

DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics - Research topics include robotic systems

Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab (RESY) - Based at the University of Köln in Germany. Research-topics include navigation for milling

Engineering Sciences and Robotics - Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL is solving major challenges around the globe in advanced robotics and chemical process systems technology through a variety of research and development initiatives.

Enrico Piaggio Robotics Group - An interdepartmental Research Center of the University of Pisa devoted to the field robotics and bioengineering. The site includes research activities and researcher profiles.

EOEML Automation Research - Georgia Tech group developing robotics for poultry processing applications including computer vision systems

EPFL Autonomous Systems Lab - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology research group specializing in autonomous control of robots in uncertain and highly dynamic environments.

ESG Lego Robotics Seminar - Provides information about the MIT Lego Robotics seminars. Site includes photos from past seminars

ETHZ Institute of Robotics - Specializes in the dynamics of controlled system

Euclide - Enhanced human machine interface for on-vehicle integrated driving support system.

Explanation Component of Software Systems - Discuses techniques for generating explanations in software products. Published in Crossroads

Farsi speech research - Speech processing in Farsi

FIU Robotics and Automation Laboratory - Florida International University research group specializing in teleoperation

Fraunhofer Autonomous Intelligence Systems - Research areas include software agents

Fraunhofer IFF Division of Automation - Research areas include robotic systems and intelligent sensor systems.

Frontios - Future Systems Engineering - Works with local Swedish Universities in the area of robotics

Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Lab - The lab's charter is to discover and develop fundamental scientific principles and practices that are applicable to intelligent mobile robot systems.

GMD Autonomous Systems and Robotics - Research topics include cognitive robotics

Greek Dictation - From the Speech Recognition Group of the Technical University of Crete. Work in progress.

GT MARS - DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) project. MARS involves research into multi-level learning in hybrid deliberative/reactive mobile robot architecture.

GTRI ATAS Laboratory - Non-profit research group specializing in aerial robotics

Hovercraft Testbed for Decentralized Control (HOTDEC) - University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign research project consisting of self-propelled and self-controlled hovercraft floating on a airhockey-type table.

HowStuffWorks - Illustrated article shows a ubiquitous networking system that allows your program applications to follow you wherever you go.

HUT - Automation Technology Laboratory - Specializes in the field of automation technology including robotics

HUT Automation Technology Laboratory - Helsinki University of Technology group specializing in mechatronics

IBM Research | Technical Disciplines | Computer Science - IBM Research Computer Science Discipline

ICS Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory - Research efforts are directed towards visual perception of static and dynamic characteristics of the 3-D world (depth

IEEE Transcations on Mobile Computing - This is a leading research journal in the area of mobile computing research.

IHear Machine Hearing Research - Services

INEEL Remote - Robotic

Institute for Automation - Research group based at the University of Leoben in Austria. Research topics include image processing

Institute for Process Control and Robotics - Based at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany

Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems - IRIS is a University of Southern California group with a focus on molecular robotics

Institute for Software Research - Work on advance software and information technology

Institute of Automatic Control Engineering - Research interests include multi-modal telepresence and teleaction

Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems - IRIS is a part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zürich (ETHZ)

Institute of Robotics Research - University of Dortmund group specializing in multi-robot systems

Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group - University of Amsterdam group that studies methodologies to create intelligent autonomous systems

Intelligent Robotics and Manufacturing Systems Lab - Research topics include multi-agent systems

Intelligent Robotics Research Center - TheIRRC is part of the Computer Systems Engineering group of the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering of Monash University in Melbourne

Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory - Part of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. The primary goal of this lab is to advance the state-of-the art in the design and real-time control of smart systems such as robots and automated vehicles.

International Phonetic Association - Provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages: the International Phonetic Alphabet.

iPic - A web server the size of a match head

ISA System Engineering and Automation Department - Research topics include multi-robot systems

IU Hardware Methods Group - Research topics include Kirchoff machines

JHU Robot And Protein Kinematics Group - Johns Hopkins University group specializing in kinematic studies of robots

Jouhou System Kougaku Laboratory - University of Tokyo research lab. Research project include various humanoid robots

Knowledge Tracking - Markov-based remote analysis of sequential symbolic data and cognitive structures.

Laboratory for Computational Intelligence - University of British Columbia group specializing in decision-making

Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics - The LPR at the University of Massachusetts Amherst conducts research on humanoid robots

Laval University Robotics Laboratory - Mainly focused on the study of parallel mechanisms and articulated robotic hands.

Lehigh MAV - Based at Lehigh University. Site includes details of the group's Micro Air Vehicle research and design program.

LIRA-Lab: Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics - Artificial vision and sensory-motor coordination from a computational neuroscience perspective. Experimentation is done with humanoid robots as well as basic research on artificial vision and robot control.

LUCS Robotics and Vision Lab - Lund University Cognitive Science group specializing in mobile robots

Lucy Bipedal Walking Robot - A project of the Multibody Mechanics Research Group at the Free University of Brussels. Lucy was designed for research into the use of pneumatic artificial muscles for locomotion.

Lund University - Division of Robotics

LUT Robotics & Automation Department - Luleå University of Technology group specializing in telerobotics and models and algorithms for controlling the motion of robots using geometrical sensors.

Machine Intelligence Lab - University of Cambridge Department of Engineering research group. Specializes in computer vision

Machine Intelligence Laboratory - Based at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Research topics include interpretation of visual motion

Manchester Robotics - University of Manchester

Mathematical Modeling of Prosody - A tutorial on intonation modeling and prosody

McGill University Center for Intelligent Machines - Research topics include ambulatory robotics

McGill University Mobile Robotics Research - Site includes searchable bibliography

Mechatronic Systems and Robotics Research Group - University of Surrey lab researching robotic workcells

Mechatronics Research Group - Lancaster University group specializing in mobile robots

MediaCup: mobile network & smart devices - An ordinary coffee cup augmented with sensing

Microsoft Speech Technology Group - Engages in research and development of speech technologies in a wide range of applications

Mihailo Pupin Institute Robotics Laboratory - Belgrade

MIT Leg Laboratory - Rocused on legged locomotion and dynamic legged robots. Site includes images

MIT Robot Pike Project - A robotic fish designed to learn more about the complex fluid mechanics that fish use to propel themselves. Site includes photos and video.

MobileInfo - Mobile and wireless computing information for IT professionals.

Multi-modal Input - White Paper - Outlines the opportunities to synergistically integrate physical and spoken input.

Museum of Speech Analysis and Synthesis - Pictures of early voice synthesizors hosted by UCSC - site seems always under construction.

NASA Advanced Autonomy for Rovers Project - This NASA group aims to advance the state of the art in ground operations and onboard autonomy for flight rovers by investigating the complex problems of autonomy in adverse environments.

NASA Automation - Robotics

NASA JPL Robotics - Performs development

NASA Robotic Vehicles Group - This NASA Jet Propulsion Lab group performs research

NASA Space Telerobotics Program - NASA group responsible for robotics and planetary rover research for the agency prior to 1997.

NASA/JPS Distributed Rovers Project - Project investigates the complex challenges surrounding distributed rovers

National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources - Boston University resource for experimantal and analyzed data (especially from native signers of ASL) to facilitate linguistic and computational research on signed languages and the gestural components of spoken languages.

Natural Interaction - Resources about natural human computer interaction

Nespole - "Negotiating through SPOken Language in E-commerce" project aims at contributing to the promotion of economic growth in the e-commerce and e-service area by improving speech to speech translation systems. Italian based research project has Europ

Noncommand User Interfaces - Future UIs vs. today's canonical window system: user focus

Oxford Robotics Research Group - Research topics include active vision

Pace University Robotics Lab - Focuses on building and testing a robot cognitive architecture. Also does research on intelligent agents for network security and intrusion detection.

Pfstar Project - European research consortium investigating multisensorial interaction. Two year project examining technologies for speech-to-speech translation

Planning-Based Control of Interface Animation - A Microsoft research paper on user interface management system and animation.

Purdue Robot Vision Lab - Specialties include 3D object recognition

research in the field of robots and cyborgs - Gert conducts research in the field of robots and cyborgs.

Revity Laboratory - Researches the use of evolution-based simulations to develop robot brains that can solve real-world problems when placed into a physical robots.

RHINO-Project - A group based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn that studies Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Topics include robotic agents

Robert Steele Homepage - Dr Robert Steele's research including information about the 2005 International Conference on Mobile Business that Robert Co-Chairs.

Robot Research.org - News and discussion site aimed at robotics research topics.

Robotic Group DIEES University of CATANIA - Service Robotic research projects include volcano inspection robots

Robotics - Perception and Real Time Group

Robotics / Autonomous Mechanical Systems - R/AMeS is a Linköping University group. Research topics include model based inertial sensing

Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory - University of Illinois group based at the Beckman Institute. Specializes in robot vision technologies such as curved object recognition and structure from motion algorithms.

Robotics and Control - University of Delaware group whose research topics include dynamic systems

Robotics at Brown University - Research topics include environment mapping and path planning.

Robotics Institute: Robot Learning Lab - Offers details regarding Carnegie Mellon University research initiatives and lists publications and related personnel.

Robotics University of Utah - Topics include agents

Robotika.cz - Czech Research group that develops robots for competition using a variety of technologies. Site also provides local robot news and information for other Czech robotics researchers.

Russian Speech Database - Russian firm offering a large collection of .wav files containing Russian speaker samples on CD. Useful for voice and speech recognition research.

Scientific American: Controlling Robots with the Mind - October 2002 article detailing research into direct brain control of robotic prosthetic devices

ShortTalk - An unusual method of composing and editing text by speech using shorthand command structures. Includes EmacsListen

SIUE Robotics Page - Information on autonomous robot research and student robotics projects at the Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville.

Smart Collaborative Content Access and Navigation (SCAN) - Interdisciplinary research group developing new interface designs at Indiana University

Software Safety Research at MIT - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offering information on current projects and papers.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center - SPAWAR is a US Navy laboratory that has conducted research on space

Space Systems Laboratory - University of Maryland

Sparc-E and robotic research at the University of South Alabama - Dedicated to small autonomous mobile robotics research and robotics use in the curriculum at the University of South Alabama

Speech Group ESAT/KULeuven Belgium - Site of the Leuven research group on speech technology (speech recognition

Speech Module of an AI Mind - A design for the speech recognition portion of a robot. Source code and theory.

Speech Processing and Signal Analysis Group FEL CTU - Czech Technical University research focusing on enhancement of speech in the running car environment

Speech Synthesis and Emotion - Doctoral research by Richard Stibbard at the University of Reading

Speech synthesis and prosody papers - Webpages of Dimitris Spiliotopoulos. Research in speech synthesis

Speech Synthesis Papers - Links to research projects and publications of Alex Monaghan. Esoteric and sometimes homey.

Speech Technology Research Resource List - Speech Technology Research Resource List

Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group - Project is investigating non-visual

Speed of Sound - Performs speech data collection and transcription in order to assist vendors and researchers in the training and evaluation of speech-recognition systems.

Spoken Language Technology at TIFR - Recognition and synthesis of spoken Indian languages at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Speech workshop scheduled for Jan 2003.

Spy Flies - Describes research on tiny robotic flyers

Stanford Dextrous Manipulation Lab - Standford University lab specializing in telemanipulation with haptic feedback

Stanford Robotics Laboratory - Specializes in including manipulation

State Research Center of Russia - Russia's Central R & D Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (CRDI RTC). Research topics include robotics and cybernetics for space

STTS S‹¨«dermalms talteknologiservice - Specializes in research and development in speech and language technology

Swarm-bots project - EU-IST project aimed at the study of new approaches to design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts.

Swarm-Intelligent Systems Research Group at EPFL - Research on design

Sydney University Unmanned Aircraft Research - Research topics include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Taygeta Scientific Research - Projects include autonomous walkers

TC-STAR Project: - Technology and corpora for speech to speech translation project - includes information and details on the project

Technische Universität München Robot Vision Group - Research goal is to make robots more intelligent by teaching them to collect

Telepresence Surgery - Description of research and development of a robotic telepresence system by SRI to perform Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS).

Tempus-3D - An interesting research tool for displaying voice spectra as recorded in .WAV files.

The Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research - The Case Western Reserve CAISR lab integrates robotics

The Harvard Robotics Laboratory - Founded in 1983

The Institute for Language - University of Shefield "Moby" project. A public domain word list for several languages

The Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center - Sandia National Lab group specializing in robotic vehicles

The JANUS Project - The goal of this project is to build an anthropomorphic two-armed robot combined with a multi-camera vision system. The geometry of the system was inspired by the upper part of a human body.

The Robotics Institute of CMU - Established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Site includes links to a wide range of specific robots and labs.

The robots at LAMI - Lists robotics related activities at EPFL in Switzerland.

The Shared Meanings Design Framework (SMDF) - A paper promoting the design of semiologically valid Web site content by Tim French and Simon Polovina.

Toy Robots Initiative - A research project at Carnegie Mellon University. It aims to commercialize robotics technologies in education

UC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab - University of California at Berkeley. Research topics include medical robotics

UFL Machine Intelligence Laboratory - University of Florida group specializing in UAVs

Ulm Robotics - University of Ulm group with interests that include distributed mobile robot control

UM Mobile Robotics Lab - Research areas include mobile robots

UMD Autonomous Mobile Robot Lab - University of Maryland group specializing in robots for education and entertainment

UNH Robotics Laboratory - Researches the problem of vibration control in robotics through real-time control experiments and simulation.

Univ. Of Pennsylvania Speech Resource - Linguistic Data Consortium - an open consortium of labs

University of Alberta Robotics Research Group - Specializes in telepresence

University of Bochum Neuroinformatics Institute - Research topics include robotics

University of Maribor Institute of Robotics - Research is divided into three groups: industrial robotics

University of Texas at Austin Robotics Research Group - A research group focusing on the development of intelligent

University of Zurich AI Lab - Works on biologically inspired robotics

UR Vision and Robotics Research - University of Rochester group specializing in appearance based recognition

USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems - CRES is the second largest robotics research center in the United States. Brings together more than eight USC robotics research labs.

USC Robotics Research Lab - Part of the University of Southern California Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems. Research includes multi-robot interaction

UT Intelligent Robotics Research - University of Texas group working on spatial semantic heirarchies

UWE Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab - Researches ways in which autonomous robots - large and small; walking

Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory - Research topics include human-robot teams

Vision-based Robot Localization - Research on various statistical localization architectures

Visual Servoing Home Page - Bibliography of printed and online information about the control of robot manipulators based on visual perception.

Voice Web Community - Directory of sites

VoiceXML Italian User Group - Developers exchange information

VoiceXML WOZ - The WOZ (Wizard of Oz) experiment is a method used to help the developers verify their dialog models. Also a multimodal implementation for VoiceXML is given. Free binaries and source code.

VUB Brussels AI Laboratory - Current focus is on the origins of language and robotic agents. Prior research projects include a robotic fish and other mobile robots.

Walking Machines Catalogue - Provide an extensive list of walking machines developed in the robotics research community. You can browse and search for robots as well as submit your own walking robot via a web form.

WASPAA'97 Home page - IEEE 1997 Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.

Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics - WCSAR is a NASA sponsored research center that helps with the commercialization of robotics