* HTS voice for GTalk README [#j0f52ca0]
 
                    HTS voices for GalateaTalk
                        December 29, 2006
  
  An HTS voice for GalateaTalk trained by using 450 utterances of
  the Nitech database for speech synthesis "Nitech JP m001 ATR503" is
  released as a part of HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
  version 2.0 (http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/).  The HTS voice can
  be used as a voice of GalateaTalk, which is a speech synthesis
  module of an open-source toolkit for anthropomorphic spoken
  dialogue agents developed in Galatea project
  (http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~galatea/), without any other HTS
  tools.
 
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                              Copying
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  The copyright on this HTS voice is
  
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           The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
                       HTS Working Group 
  
                  Department of Computer Science
                  Nagoya Institute of Technology
                               and
   Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
                  Tokyo Institute of Technology
                     Copyright (c) 2001-2006
                       All Rights Reserved.  
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and
  distribute this software and its documentation without
  restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
  copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
  sell copies of this work, and to permit persons to whom this
  work is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 
  
    1. The code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
       of conditions and the following disclaimer.
  
    2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such.
  
  NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOKYO INSITITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
  HTS WORKING GROUP, AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK DISCLAIM
  ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL
  IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT
  SHALL NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOKYO INSITITUTE OF
  TECHNOLOGY, HTS WORKING GROUP, NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
  FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY
  DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
  WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTUOUS
  ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
  PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
  
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  The copyright on the Nitech speech database, which is used for
  training the HTS voice, is
  
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               Nitech database for speech synthesis
                    release December 26, 2003
  
                  Department of Computer Science
                  Nagoya Institute of Technology
  
                        Copyright (c) 2003
                       All Rights Reserved.
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and
  distribute this software and its documentation without
  restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
  copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
  sell copies of this work, and to permit persons to whom this
  work is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
   
    1. The code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
       of conditions and the following disclaimer.
   
    2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such.
   
    3. Licensor has the right to terminate this License
       immediately upon notice to Licensee.  Upon termination of
       this License, Licensee must cease all use of the Software
       and destroy all copies, full or partial, of the Software.
   
  NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK
  DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
  ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
  EVENT SHALL NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS
  BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
  ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR
  PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
  TORTUOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
  PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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                            Installation
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  Self-explanatory.  Sorry..
 
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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/
 

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