================================================================ HTS voices for Festival 1.95 & 1.96 release June 27, 2008 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 2.1 (http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/). Each of HTS voices consists of HMMs trained by using HTS. **************************************************************** Copying **************************************************************** The current copyright on the scm codes for HTS voices is ;; ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;; ;; Nagoya Institute of Technology and ;; ;; Carnegie Mellon University ;; ;; Copyright (c) 2002 ;; ;; 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 source code must retain the above copyright notice, ;; ;; this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. ;; ;; ;; ;; 2. 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See the manual of Festival. Example: festival > (intro) festival > (SayText "Alice was beginning to get tired.") **************************************************************** Who we are **************************************************************** 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/ ================================================================