Center for Spoken Language Understanding - Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology has created a public resource for experimenters. Download trial software for speech recognizers.
comp.speech WWW site - Provides a range of information on speech technology, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, speech coding, and related material. Pages look a little old (1997) but a very wide range of FAQ here. Algorithm for building simple recognizers.
Dictation Without Wires or Monitor - Graduate student thesis which may give ideas for difficult environments. Mostly in German, but there is also an English page (click flag). Approach develops a little bit of intelligence between speech recognition and text to speech engine.
IDIAP Speech Processing Group - Research and development of recognition and understanding techniques for realistic speaking styles and acoustic conditions, as well as speaker verification and identification techniques.
Speech Analysis - A detailed paper describing speech recognition technology.
Speech Informatics Group - Main research directions are speech recognition/understanding, methodology of speech dialogue systems, applied systems, hidden Markov algorithms.
SPIRIT Speech Technologies - Has advanced software algorithms for speech compression, enhancement, recognition and speaker identification (i.e., voice recognition).
Torch Library - A library in C++ for developing Open Source speech and machine learning applications. The code is under the Gnu Public License.
VOICEBOX: Speech Processing Toolbox for MATLAB - A voice processing toolbox for Matlab, very useful for prototyping algorithms and has routines to do most of the basic useful tasks in speech.