LINSE - Circuit and Signal Processing Laboratory - is a research unit of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). Its activities include several research and design topics concerning Signal Processing and Circuits and Systems Projects. In the speech technology area, the main topics include speech codification, synthesis and recognition.
LINSE carries out research in text-to-speech conversion systems. Some demos of the voice quality synthesized by the system developed in the lab can be heard on this site.