* [[Acknowledgments]] [#v999b499]
 
 The following people and related organizations have contributed to the development of HTS in various ways.  It is their work that makes it all possible.  In no special order:
 
 - ''Keiichi Tokuda''~
 Overall concept and design.
 
 - ''Heiga Zen''~
 Throwing away all old codes of HTS and rewriting them as HTS version 1.0, 1.1, 1.1b, 1.1.1, and 2.0.  Current maintainer of HTS.
 Throwing away all old codes of HTS and rewriting them as HTS version 1.0, 1.1, 1.1b, 1.1.1, 2.0, and 2.0.1.  He is the current maintainer of HTS.
 
 - ''Junichi Yamagishi''~
 Testing out various clustering and adaptation algorithms.
 
 - ''Takayoshi Yoshimura''~
 Development of the first version of HTS.
 
 - ''Masatsune Tamura''~
 Implementation of various speaker adaptation algorithms for HMM-based speech synthesis.
 
 - ''Shinji Sako''~
 Applying HMM-based speech synthesis to audio-visual speech.
 
 - ''Noboru Miyazaki''~
 Implementation of the first version of MSD-HMM trainer for pitch pattern modeling.
 
 - ''Tetsuya Yamada''~
 Testing out various HMM training algorithms for HMM-based speech synthesis.
 
 - ''Takashi Masuko''~
 Discussions in detail and implementing speech parameter generation algorithms.
 
 - ''Takao Kobayashi''~
 Discussions and supervising students working on speech synthesis.
 
 - ''Tadashi Kitamura''~
 Discussions and supervising students working on speech synthesis.
 
 - ''Satoshi Imai''~
 Supervising students working on speech synthesis.
 
 - ''Alan Black''~
 Discussions about all aspects of speech synthesis, helping us to use Festival, and supplying speech databases.
 
 - ''Tomoki Toda''~
 Discussions and implemantation of GV-based parameter generation algorithms.
 
 - ''Takashi Nose''~
 Testing out the version 2.0.
 
 - ''Steve Young, Phil Woodland, Mark Gales, and Other HTK developers''~
 - ''Keiichiro Oura''~
 Implementing hts_engine API.
 
 - ''Steve Young, Phil Woodland, Mark Gales, and other HTK developers''~
 Development of HTK.
 
 and many other important contributors (we had to leave them out since they are too many).

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