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                  HTS voices for GalateaTalk
                        June 27, 2008

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 2.1 (http://hts.sp.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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The copyright on the Nitech speech database, which is used for
training the HTS voice, is

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                          Installation
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Self-explanatory.  Sorry..

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                           Who we are
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The HTS working group is a voluntary group for developing the
HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System.  Current members are

 Keiichi Tokuda      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
 (Principle Designer)
 Heiga Zen           http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/
 (Main Maintainer)
 Junichi Yamagishi   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/
 Alan W. Black       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
 Takashi Masuko
 Shinji Sako         http://www.mmsp.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/
 Tomoki Toda         http://spalab.naist.jp/~tomoki/index_e.html
 Takashi Nose
 Keiichiro Oura      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/

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.sp.nitech.ac.jp/
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