ECESS (European Center of Excellence for Speech Synthesis; www.ECESS.eu) is an open, non funded consortium for institutions active in speech synthesis and related topics.

ECESS is targeted to build an infrastructure with the goal to accelerate progress in speech synthesis with respect to models, algorithms, and languages. The infrastructure is based on the idea to facilitate the exchange of modules, language resources, and tools needed for speech synthesis and related topics. The exchange is based on the principles of validation and evaluation.

New partners can join the center as observers, associative members or members. To join the center one should express its interest by sending an email to the email address This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it expressing his/her interest to join the center and shortly describing scientific interests and fields in which the contribution could be expected.

The General Assembly of the ECESS decides about the acceptance of new members, usually twice a year during the regular ECESS meetings.