About

SPEX was founded in 1987 with the objective to develop and provide software, tools and databases for companies and institutes active in speech research and the development of speech technology and speech driven applications. SPEX has a special task in making available spoken language resources for research purposes in the Dutch academic environment.

SPEX's main activities at present are the creation, annotation and validation of spoken language resources. SPEX has been selected as the primary Validation Centre for speech corpora in ELRA. Further, SPEX acts as validation centre for several consortia that conduct projects aiming at the creation of speech corpora, many of which are funded by the European Commission. SPEX is also involved in the annotation and post-processing of man-machine dialogues aimed at developing spoken dialogue systems for information services.