This page contains a number of external links with useful content for those interested in speaker verification, speech recognition, and our target areas of banking and telecommunications. We would be delighted to hear your suggestions, which you can mail us by clicking here.
Other CAVE and European Speech Processing Links
OVID - a EU-funded project investigating the usability of interfaces to telephone banking systems.
ESCA - The European Speech Communication Association, an umbrella organisation promoting speech technology research on this side of the Atlantic.
The Speech, Vision and Robotics group of Cambridge University Engineering Department - one of Europe's top speech groups, and birthplace of the HTK toolkit.
Speech Recognition Resources
The Linguistic Data Consortium - publishers of speech corpora including the YOHO SV corpus.
The SRAPI Consortium - standardising APIs for the next generation of speech-enabled applications.
A well-written survey of the state-of-the-art in speech and language technology from Oregon Graduate Institute.
TMA Associates - publishers of the very informative and readable Speech Recognition Update.
ICASSP 1997 - the premier international conference on speech processing and related issues, to be held in 1997 in Munich, Germany.
Entropic Research Inc. - suppliers of HTK, the widely-used software platform for prototyping speech recognisers and basic ASR research.
Banking and Banking Fraud
The home page of Ross Anderson - world authority on cryptography and scourge of complacent bankers.
The 1995 report of the Banking Ombudsman - upholding or rejecting complaints against British banks.
The Better Banking demonstration from Nuance Communications - a novel telephone banking service using speech recognition technology from SRI.
Telecommunications and Telephony
General resources courtesy of Lampeter University.
TELECOM Digest - The Internet telecom mailing list.
Dialogic - Market leader in computer telephony products.
Ring - Creators of the ROSA application generator used by CAVE.
Biometrics and SV
The home page of the Biometric Consortium - a US Government-sponsored group supporting research into various biometric technologies.
SpeakerKey - SV technology from ITT.
AVBPA - The 1st Internation Conference on Audio-Visual Biometric Person Authentication; 12th-14th March 1997, Crans Montana, Switzerland. We have a paper there.
The Sprint Voice FONcard - still the only mass-market application of SV technology.