The Linguistic Data Consortium supports language-related
education, research and technology development by creating and sharing
linguistic resources: data, tools and standards.
The Speech Recognition Virtual Kitchen aims to promote sharing of research techniques, foster innovative experimentation, and provide solid reference systems as a tool for education, research, and evaluation with a focus on speech and language research. The core of the research infrastructure is the use of virtual machines (VMs) that provide a consistent environment for experimentation. We liken the virtual machines to a “kitchen” because they provide the infrastructure into which one can install “appliances” (e.g., speech recognition toolkits), “recipes” (scripts for creating state-of-the art systems), and “ingredients” (language data).
The Human Language Technologies area of NIST coordinates
resources in the measurement and evaluation
of speech recognition, speaker recognition, spoken language understanding,
information search, retrieval, and filtering, document understanding,
summarization, interactive speech interfaces. The website contains
descriptions of standard benchmark and evaluation activities in the speech
community, as well as a set of tools for manipulating various types of speech
data.
This is an extensive website describing
the activities of the International Speech Communication Association. ISCA's
stated goal is "to promote Speech Communication Science and
Technology, both in the industrial and Academic areas", covering all
the aspects of Speech Communication (Acoustics, Phonetics, Phonology,
Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive
Science, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, etc.).