The Edinburgh-Stanford Link is a £6m research, training and commercialisation initiative, specialising in speech and language technology.

The initiative links the UK's top computer science research group, the University of Edinburgh, with the world's most entrepreneurial, Stanford University in California.

Funded by Scottish Enterprise, the Link exploits the commercial potential of this research by transferring knowledge and skills into new or existing companies.

Speech technology and language processing research topics range from the semantic web to software agents with personalities.

The Link also serves as the commercialisation vehicle for the 100+ research staff investigating human computer interaction (HCI) at the University of Edinburgh.