101. DesktopMates - Microsoft Agent & Artificial Intelligence Technologies Animated human like characters that live on your desktop as your personal interactive companion and assistant capable of speech and doing tasks for you using Microsoft Agent technology. http://desktopmates.com/

102. Electronic School: E-Wire: March 1999 Article from the Electronic School (the awardwinning quarterly technology magazine for K-12 school leaders.) http://www.electronic-school.com/199903/0399ewire.html#1

Students' free-speech rights extend to the Internet A Missouri school district violated a student's free speech rights when it suspended him for criticizing his high school and its faculty on his personal web page, a federal court has ruled. The case is among the first to reach the courts concerning students' rights to free speech on the Internet. Brandon Beussink, 17, was a junior last year at Woodland High School, about 100 miles south of St. Louis, when he set up a home page with his sister on their parents' home computer. Using occasionally vulgar language, the page criticized the school's official web site. It also urged visitors to send e-mail to the principal and inform a teacher that the web site was bad. Beussink removed his home page from the Internet after school officials complained. They also suspended him for 10 days and then failed him for the semester as a result of his absences, according to a suit filed on Beussink's behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union. Last December, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Woodland School District, prohibiting it from using the suspension against Beussink in grade and attendance calculations. The injunction also bars the district from punishing Beussink or restricting his ability to post his web page.

103. Science, Technology And Responsibility speech on science, technology and responsibility given to the Royal Society in London by John Browne, Group Chief Executive British Petroleum Company PLC. http://www.bp.com/centres/press/s_detail.asp?id=39

104. Apple - Higher Education Apple’s leadership in speech recognition technology makes it possible — we’re bringing a whole new dimension to the user interface speech. http://www.apple.com/speech/

105. Aquatic Ape Theory And Speech Origins A Hypothesis Paper by Marc J. M. Verhaegen, published in Speculations in Science and technology. http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~mvaneech/Fil/Verhaegen_Language_SpeculationsScienceTec

Aquatic ape theory and speech origins: a hypothesis Marc J. M. Verhaegen Speculations in Science and Technology 11, 165-171 (1988) Received: March 1987 Abstract - The question of speech origins is discussed in the light of the theory that humans had semi-aquatic hominid ancestors. Diving requires a special anatomy of the airway entrances and a very refined control of breathing. The brain structures that "voluntarily" controlled the airway entrances’ closure and breathing could also be used for elaborating the older (early hominid, perhaps gibbon-like) sound production. Later, the evolution of association areas in the brain greatly enhanced human ability for attaching a particular meaning to a conventional sound combination. The aquatic ape theory (AAT) of Sir Alister Hardy (1) states that a few million years ago human ancestors spent a considerable part of their day swimming and diving in a river, lake or sea, and, at least partially, consumed aquatic food. The AAT is supported by the presence of our thick subcutaneous fat layers, by our lack of body hair and by several other features that are absent in non-human primates, but widespread among aquatic mammals (1-13). The ability to speak is a uniquely human characteristic. Innumerable attempts to explain it have been made but the question of how language emerged is not yet solved. Recently, it has been suggested that the origin of speech was facilitated by our aquatic past (5,14). All aquatic mammals "voluntarily" control their breathing. When surfaced they open the airway passage whenever they want to inhale air, and they can hyperventilate and then close the airway passage when they intend to dive. The subtle "voluntary" control of breathing and airway closure in mammals in general is a pre-adaptation for speech (15,16).

106. Mellburg Technology Speech Assistance Equipment Home Page Resells communication devices for people with speech impairment. http://www.mellburg.com

Home Store Links Support ... Downloads Easy-to-Use, High-Functioning Augmentative Communication Devices for individuals with Lou Gehrig's (ALS or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), Cerebral Palsy, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Stroke, Autism, Laryngectomy, Down Syndrome or anyone who has difficulty with speech. Although these devices were researched and designed with literate, high-functioning persons in mind, individuals of all levels of cognitive abilities will benefit. For Children, Teens, and Adults - Get Today's Technology at Today's Low Prices - Comes with standard Calendar, Contact, and Task Management Software - Use English (No new language to learn)! Medicare-approved versions available. Portable and Intelligent Augmentative Communication Aids ChatPC, ChatBox, and Message Box are trademarks of Saltillo Corporation ChatPC-II A small and lightweight model with an enclosed rechargeable speaker - ideal for children or adults. The ChatPC is great for children or adults who are not yet reading and writing. PC Editor on your computer, or just start communicating with no setup! Also available in a

107. JD Technologies, Inc. Provides computer application training, services, and support. On and offsite instructor-led training in an array of business applications including adaptive speech recognition technology in the medical field. http://www.jdtechnologies.net

108. CTER White Papers On Technology Issues For Educators Teams of educators participating in an online course developed a set of white papers on how new information and communication technologies affect schools. They produced educators' guides to Access Issues, Credibility and Web Evaluation, Free speech versus Censorship, Privacy, Commercialism, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Plagiarism, Computer Crime and technology Misuse. http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/

White Papers on Technology Issues for Educators Spring 1999 Revised: Fall 2003 During the Spring semester of 1999, a course was offered at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign as part of an online Masters program called CTER: Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform . This course, Educational Policy Studies 304: Ethical and Policy Issues in Information Technologies , included an assignment for seven teams, composed entirely of teachers and other K-12 personnel who were part of the course, to develop a set of white papers on a number of issues centrally affecting the ways in which new information and communication technologies are changing schools today. An Educator's Guide to Access Issues (1999/2002) and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation (1999/2002) and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version An Educator's Guide to Free Speech vs. Censorship (1999/2002) and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version An Educator's Guide to Privacy (1999/2002) and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version An Educator's Guide to Commercialism (1999/2002) and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version An Educator's Guide to Computer Crime and Technology Misuse (1999/2002) and the 2002 addendum the original 1999 version These papers were revised during June 2002 by the students in Educational Psychology 387

109. Master In Artificial Intelligence Master in Artificial Intelligence program in Belgium. Information about the program and its options in engineering and computer science, speech and language technology, and cognitive science. http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cwis/education/MAI/

110. Voice Recognition And Home Automation Available At Computer Voice Technology Computer Voice technology provides solutions for voice recognition and speech dictation including home automation products like Hal2000 http://voicetalk.com

Announcing Dragon 7.0 - the best version of Dragon Speech Engine ever!!! Matched to the newest model of our VoiceTalk 2000, you can be dictating within a matter of minutes - with excellent recognition !! Complete Medical or Legal Voice Recognition system with VoiceTalk 2000 notebook computer or desktop system... For as low as $145 per month!! Click here for more information..... Why type Patient names and addresses into your documents while you are dictating Hot News: We now have a macro-based interface to the Patient Database for many of the popular Medical Management packages that you already have in your office ! Computer Voice Technology, Inc CONTACT US Medical Dictation and Legal Dictation Macros and Templates help eliminate expensive transcription costs. We custom develop YOUR forms and macros in Dragon, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or other forms generating packages. Our favorite EMR package is: CLICK THE LOGO FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO ORDER SOAPware Our Voice Recognition Solutions...

111. Free Speech Online History of the litigation over the Communications Decency Act. http://www.cdt.org/speech/cda/

Stop The Secret Expansion Of The PATRIOT Act Call Congress Today Issue Areas Pennsylvania Web Blocking Political Speech User Empowerment Studies ... Resources Legislation Bills from the 108th Congress Bills from the 107th Congress Bills from the 106th Congress Bills from the 105th Congress ... Child Online Protection Act Court Cases French Yahoo! Case Current Challenge to Child Online Protection Act Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Internet Free Speech Resources for Parents GetNetWise Publications Square Pegs and Round Holes: Applying Campaign Finance Law to the Internet Report to the Federal Trade Commission of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Unsolicited Commercial Email Regardless of Frontiers: Protecting the Human Right to Freedom of Expression on the Global Internet An Overview of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) In a landmark 1997 decision , the Supreme Court ruled that the Internet is a unique medium entitled to the highest protection under the free speech protections of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. This gives the Internet same free speech protection as print. The Internet is the first electronic media to achieve this because of low barriers to access, abundance, many speakers, no gatekeepers. The Court struck down the Communications Decency Act (CDA), Congress' first attempt to censor speech online. Writing for the court, Justice John Paul Stevens held that "the CDA places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech" and found that all provisions of the CDA are unconsitutional as they apply to "indecent" or "patently offensive" speech. In a separate concurrence, Chief Justice William Rhenquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor agreed that the provisions of the CDA are all unconstitutional except in their narrow application to "communications between an adult and one or more minors."

112. Survey Of The State Of The Art In Human Language Technology A 1996 highlevel review of spoken/written input, analysis and understanding, generation, speech output, discourse and dialogue, document processing, multiple languages and modes, transmission and storage, mathematical methods, other resources, how to evalate an NLP program. http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/

CSLU Home Page Next: Chapter 1 Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (postscript version) Editorial Board: Ronald A. Cole, Editor in Chief Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit Annie Zaenen Victor Zue Managing Editors: Giovanni Battista Varile Antonio Zampolli Sponsors: National Science Foundation European Commission Additional support was provided by: Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA University of Pisa, Italy A hardcopy of this document is available from Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-59277-1 Foreword from Ron Cole, editor in chief Foreword from Oscar Garcia, former NSF Program Manager Contents by Chapter Chapter 1: Spoken Language Input Chapter 2: Written Language Input Chapter 3: Language Analysis and Understanding Chapter 4: Language Generation ... Contents by Section and Author Maintained by Mike Noel and Wei Wei

113. ICSLP 2002 September 16-20 September 1620, 2002 Denver, Colorado. Theme Interdisciplinary speech Science technology from Von Kempelen's speaking machine to millennium. Includes speakers, travel information inclusive of discounted air tickets, online registration, fees, accommodation, program, workshops, special sessions, tutorials, and important dates. http://www.icslp2002.org/home.html

Conference Welcome Technical Program Keynote Speakers Panel Discussion ... Purchase Proceedings Organization Committees Exhibitors Welcome to ICSLP-2002 [Click Here to Purchase Conference Proceedings] On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee it is my distinct pleasure to invite you to attend the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP The conference will be held in Denver, Colorado and is being organized by researchers, scientists, and engineers at the Center for Spoken Language Research, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (University of Colorado Boulder), and the W.G. Voice Center (Denver Center for the Performing Arts). The theme of ICSLP-2002 is "Interdisciplinary Speech Science & Technology from Von Kempelen's speaking machine to millennium." The

114. Acsys Biometrics Corp. Provider of neural technology applications for the financial, manufacturing, security and medical sectors. Owns exclusive worldwide HNet license for face and speech recognition applications. http://www.acsysbiometrics.com

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115. Aims Of ISCA SIG: Speech And Language Technology For Minority Languages The ISCA (International speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group on speech and Language technology for Minority Languages has the overall aim of promoting research and development in the field of speech and language technology for lesserused languages. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/download/briony/SALTMIL/aims.html

Aims of ISCA SIG: "Speech And Language Technology for Minority Languages" Aims and Objectives The ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages has the overall aim of promoting research and development in the field of speech and language technology for lesser-used languages, particularly those of Europe. It has the following specific objectives: Promoting conferences and workshops. Promoting electronic discussion through the Internet (Web site, discussion list, etc). Maintaining a database of active researchers. Providing a channel of communication between minority language researchers and those active in speech and language technology in general. The proposal for the SIG is available. Motivation By definition, a minority language has a smaller resource base than the major languages. For some minority languages (those that are fighting for survival), there are not sufficient resources to support research and development in speech and language technology. This means that, in time, the language will fall even further behind the major languages and will be viewed as second-class and pre-technological, since all interaction with computers will need to take place in a major language. This is a critical factor in the survival of some languages. If minority languages die, then a valuable part of the world's cultural diversity will have been lost. Therefore support is necessary for research in speech and language technology for minority languages. It is probable that advances can be made by acting together that could not be made by any one language acting alone. In the case of certain minority languages, the state Government is not particularly sympathetic to their existence, and support must be found from outside or private agencies.

116. Legislative Alerts Red Hat strongly opposes the bill because it encroaches on freedom of speech, it could have harmful effects on open source software, and its definition of digital technology is far too broad. http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/article2.html

presented by LEGISLATIVE ALERT: SSSCA - Security Systems Standards and Certification Act The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, or SSSCA, was originated by Senator Fritz Hollings (Dem.-S.Carolina), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Essentially, all devices and software that fall into this vague definition of digital interactive technology will have to include encryption so it can't be copied. This could include VCR tapes, compact discs, and the devices that run them, as well as computers and open source software. The act would make it illegal to: Remove or alter the security technology. Transmit content where the security technology has been modified or removed. Manufacture or distribute any digital device or software that does not incorporate the technology. Without question, Red Hat strongly opposes the bill. We believe it encroaches into the first amendment rights of individuals. It could also have harmful effects on open source software if the fundamental right to copy the software is restricted. In addition, the bill's definition of digital technology is far too broad and could be used to refer to almost any digital technology. The bill is being motivated by motion picture and television studios that seek to end piracy of their movies and other forms of entertainment. Curiously, these studios also happen to be among Hollings' top campaign contributors, as noted by Newsforge reporter Dan Berkes.

117. Knowledge Information & Data Management Lab. Sirindhorn International Institute of technology's center of research in knowledge discovery, information engineering, speech and natural language processing. http://kind.siit.tu.ac.th/

We focus on two main research fields, Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD or Data Mining) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). For KDD, our research concerns association rule mining, classification, clustering, prediction, and other data mining-related fundamental and practical topics such as the development of decision support systems. For NLP, our research topics include information retrieval, information extraction, text classification, word segmentation, speech processing. In both fields, we stress on the research and development of new basic techniques that can be applied to various applications. These techniques mainly involve with several different disciplines, such as machine learning, statistical learning, database technology, computational linguistics, decision theory, information theory and data visualization.

118. Register At NYTimes.com In what may signal a heightened significance for a case testing the constitutionality of a 1998 digital copyright law, a panel of appeals court judges has asked both sides of a case to answer a list of 11 questions on whether computer code can qualify as free speech. By Amy Harmon. New York Times Free registration required. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CODE.html

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119. Agent Reader Multilingual text to speech reader using Microsoft Agent technology, agenda, macro recorder, ads/popup killer and over 15 integrated productivity utilities. http://www.aldostools.com/agentreader.html

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120. My Home Page Products for people with speech difficulties. http://www.assistive-technology.com

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