* [[HTS voice for Festival README]] [#v8af90ea]
  
 
  ================================================================
               HTS voices for Festival 1.95 & 1.96
                    release December 29, 2006
  
  Six HTS voices for Festival 1.95 & 1.96 trained by using 
  "CMU ARCTIC database" (http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/) 
  are released as a part of HMM-based Speech Synthesis System 
  (HTS) version 2.0 (http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/).  
  Each of HTS voices consists of HMMs trained by using HTS.
 
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                           Installation
  ****************************************************************
  *** Installation of HTS Voice ***
  
  (nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz,
  nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts.tar.gz,
  and nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz)
  
  0) Download "nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz" from
     http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/ and expand it in the directory
     which you installed the Festival.
   
  1) Run Festival
  
  2) To change the current voice, type:
  
     festival> (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts)
  
  3) Now you can synthesize speech using the HTS voice in the
     framework of Festival.  See the manual of Festival.
  
     Example:
  
       festival > (intro)
  
       festival > (SayText "Alice was beginning to get tired.")
 
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                             Who we are
  ****************************************************************
  
  HTS working group is a voluntary group for developing the
  HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System.  Current HTS working group
  members are
  
   Keiichi Tokuda      http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
   (Principle Designer)
   Heiga Zen           http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/
   (Main Maintainer)
   Jun-ichi Yamagishi  http://www.kbys.ip.titech.ac.jp/yamagishi/
   Takashi Masuko
   Shinji Sako         http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sako/profile.html.en
   Alan W. Black       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
   Takashi Nose
  
  and the members are dynamically changing.  The current formal
  contact address of HTS working group and a mailing list for HTS
  users can be found at http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/
  ================================================================
 
 

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