* History [#af7558b8] #contents ** 2006 [#z5d7dda6] >''December 4:'' >> HTS version 2.0RC3 was released to members of Mailing List. >''July 1:'' >> HTS version 2.0RC2 was released to members of Mailing List. >''March 3:'' >> HTS version 2.0RC1 was released to members of Mailing List. >''February 15:'' >> HTS version 2.0RC0 was released to the internal working group. ** 2003 [#ld26312a] >''December 26:'' >> HTS version 1.1.1 was released. The new features were - Based on HTK-3.2.1 - Demo script for ARCTIC database - Demo script for an original database (Japanese) - Variance flooring in demo script - Postfiltering in hts-engine - Many fixed bugs >''Oct. 14:'' >> New HTS voices trained by ARCTIC databases were released. >''June 11:'' >> HTS version 1.1b was released. >''May 9:'' >> HTS version 1.1 was released. The new features were - A small synthesis engine (to be called from Festival). - HMM file format converter for the engine. - Many fixed bugs (Thanks for reporting them). - Accompanied by HTS voices for Festival. >''January 21:'' >> Minor revision was made to HTS version 1.0. ** 2002 [#s0e2a8a8] >''December 25:'' >> HTS version 1.0 was released. //>''September:'' //>> The first paper about eigenvoice for HMM-based speech synthesis was //appeared in ICSLP'02. // //** 1999 [#v67c04e5] //> ''September:'' //>> The first paper about the current HTS framework was appeared in //Eurospeech'99. //> ''March:'' //>> The first paper about MSD-HMM was appeared in ICASSP'99. // //** 1998 [#v760e959] //> ''November:'' //>> The first paper about speaker adaptation for the HMM-based speech synthesis //using MLLR was appeared in ESCA/COCOSDA workshop on speech synthesis. // //** 1997 [#v95967aa] //> ''September:'' //>> The first paper about speaker interpolation for the HMM-based speech //synthesis was appeared in Eurospeech'97. // ** 1995 [#v5285cba] > ''May:'' >> The first paper about the speech parameter generation algorithm was appeared in ICASSP'95.