So which companies are at the forefront of spoken language systems research and marketing? Here is a list of companies involved in serious speech R&D:MicroSoft: Speech Technology Researchhttp://research.microsoft.com/research/srg/SRI International: STAR lab and AI centerhttp://www.speech.sri.com/http://www.ai.sri.com/natural-language/Lucent Technologies: Multimedia Communications Research Labhttp://www.bell-labs.com/org/1133/Research/Sun Microsystems: Speech Grouphttp://www.sun.com/research/speech/AT&T Labs Research: TTS Project and Natural Voiceshttp://www.research.att.com/ttshttp://www.naturalvoices.att.com/IBM: Human Language Technology and Voice Systemshttp://www.research.ibm.com/hlt/http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/
And here are well-known companies with serious speech products:Dragon Systemshttp://www.dragonsys.com/Nuance Communicationshttp://www.nuance.com/Lernout & Hauspiehttp://www.lhs.com/speechtech/
And we mustn't forget to mention these famous Australians!Syrinx Speech Systems:http://www.syrinx.com.auCochlear Ltd:http://www.cochlear.com
For a list of these and all WWW resources on speech science and technology known to me please stop by my Spoken Language Systems page:http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto/research/speech.phpor checkout the ASSTA WWW Links page:http://www.assta.org/assta_sites.php