The Natural Language Software Registry provides a concise summary of the capabilities and sources of language processing software available to researchers. The collection contains nearly one hundred software descriptions and comprises academic, commercial, and proprietary software. The registry is maintained by DFKI , the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and can be accessed on-line under the following address:
The World-Wide Web offers a broad range of online information related to the automatic synthesis of natural language speech output, including demonstrations of speech synthesizers and detailed descriptions of available speech synthesis software and hardware.
The Speech Synthesis Museum at the University of Birmingham provides online text-to-speech samples for major commercial and research systems:
Further speech synthesis related information is available from the Speech Toys Web Site :
An excellent source for continuously updated information is the section on speech synthesis of the Frequently Asked Questions list from the comp.speech newsgroup . This FAQ is also available from the following WWW address:
Yet another excellent collection of useful online ressources concerning the automatic synthesis of natural language speech output is accessible through the following World-Wide Web address:
Detailed information concerning the UNL project for universal multi-lingual access to online documents is available from the Institute of Advanced Studies at United Nations University . The official UNL Web site is being maintained at the following WWW location:
ELSNET , the European Network in Language and Speech, is an EU-funded network of excellence which aims at building multilingual speech and natural language systems with unrestricted coverage of both spoken and written language. Detailed information concerning this activity can be found at: ESCA , the European Speech Communication Association, maintains a WWW site for information dissemination which may be accessed at the following address:
Europe has a very active and internationally recognized Natural Language Generation (NLG) research community. A particularly high concentration of NLG activities is visible in Scotland. The following World-Wide Web page serves as a repository for information about NLG research at various Scottish universities and departments, and the people who are doing it: Another important center for Natural Language Generation research in Europe is located in Saarbrücken, Germany. On the Saarbrücken campus many research activities are pursued in this field, both at the University and at DFKI , the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Useful pointers to NLG-related R&D efforts in Saarbrücken are available from the following address: A more complete overview of research projects related to Natural Language Generation in Germany is provided at: