The group is devoted to the speech processing technologies and its applications, with focus on the following specific areas:

• Text to Speech Conversion: The group has its own multilingual text-to-speech conversion system, working on English, Spanish and Basque. Our AhoTTS system for Basque (aholab.ehu.es/TTS) is the only one fully developed at the Basque Country and it is freely available. It is also able to generate emotional synthetic speech.
• Speech Synthesis: A big research effort is devoted to the synthetic speech generation algorithms and technologies, to be incorporated into the AhoTTS for its evaluation. Virtually all state of the art speech generation technologies have been developed and evaluated through the last 15 years.
• Music and singing: we have explored the applications of speech synthesis in the field, developing singing synthesis and a signal processing tool for music teaching.
• Prosody modelling: Prosody models and prosody generation techniques have been developed specifically for the Basque language. Special focus was on prosody analysis and conversion techniques applied to the generation of emotional speech.
• Speech recognition: The group has developed several public speech databases for the development and test of speech recognition systems for Basque, all of them available through ELRA. A reduced vocabulary isolated and connected word recognition system for Basque has also been developed, and a continuous speech recognizer is now being developed.
• Speaker recognition and speaker diarisation: We have participated in the past in several national projects involving speaker recognition. Presently this is a very active research area, with 2 live national projects and several international collaborations (see publications 2010). The recognition of the speaker emotions has also been a very active and productive research field during the last 4 years
• Machine listening: We have experience in extracting information out of audio and voice signals, being the most important achievement the detection of noises inside vehicles.