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[[HTS voice README]]
 
              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
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 *** 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.

 *** test ***
 
 0) Run Festival
 
 1) To change the current voice, type:
 
    festival> (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts)
 
 2) 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
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 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/