A listing of speech resources:

Speech Technology - A page devoted to the different applications of speech technology including information on desktop applications, text to speech programs, and Voice over IP (VoIP).

Speech Recognition How To - A Guide to speech recognition on Linux based systems covering free and commercial software, soundcards, and microphones.

Speech Understood/LumenVox - General information on speech recognition and resources. The site includes a video explaining what speech recognition is and its differences with voice recognition.

Basics of Speech Recognition - Part of a series of tutorials on voice recognition.

Class for Speech Recognition - Overview of a class devoted to the basics of speech recognition. The class covers aspects such as probability theory, signal processing, acoustic modeling, and language models.

Speech Recognition in Healthcare - An article on the importance, both implied and realized, of using speech recognition software in the healthcare field. The article continues with the basics of the software and hardware needed to run it.

Signal Processing and Speech Recognition - The article describes in great detail the software needed to make speech recognition viable in the scientific research field.

Notes on Signal Processing for Speech - Course work and class notes from professors on speech recognition software.

Microsoft Research - Research materials in the form of PDF files from Microsoft research on speech recognition software.

Signal Processing Techniques - An abstract on the signal processing techniques needed to perform speech recognition.

IEEE Signal Processing Society - An overview of the speech and language processing technical committee covering topics like speech indexing, spoken language understanding, and information extraction.

Speech Coding - A list of links to basic speech coding resources.

Overview of Speech Coding - A general review of the idea of speech coding and its brief history - covers vocoders and waveform coders, as well as information on speech coding and recognition software popularity and need.

Speech Coding and Compression - A list of links leading to speech recognition and compression techniques.

Basic Speech Encoding - The basics of any process by which speech is encoded to be interpreted by a computer or machine.

Stanford's Speech Research - The aim of the research is to develop algorithms that allow computers to understand human language.

IBM Speech Recognition Research - Links to information on IBM's contributions to speech recognition, compression, and natural language recognition software.

Language Processing - Toolkit for natural language processing. Software, help and downloads are provided.

OpenNLP - A large resource of information, software, and tools for natural language processing.