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[hts-users:00069] Message from HTS maintainer


Dear hts-users ML members,

I found a forum discussing about HTS on festival.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=195579

And in some web sites, cmu_us_arctic_hts is referred as one of the best
free voice in the world !

http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2004-04/0405.shtml
http://cool.haxx.se/pipermail/rockbox/2004-April/002570.html
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-February/036857.html
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7079563
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user/29445

I am glad to know these messages :-)

I'm planning to release next version of HTS (1.1.2) based on next HTK
release (3.3).
I wish I could release it in this winter.
Next release will be bug-fix version.
I found a number of bugs and fixed them already.

And hts_engine will be included as a part of Festival 2.0.
Current hts voice requires perl, awk, and sox, and it is distributed
with hts_engine binary (Linux on x86).
I think it causes a lot of problems :-(
By including hts_engine as a module of Festival,
hts voices will get more easy-to-use.

Any feedbacks, suggestions, and contributions for HTS are welcome !
Let's warm up hts-users community !

Heiga Zen (Byung-Ha Chun)

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  Heiga Zen     (in Japanese pronunciation)
  Byung-Ha Chun (in Korean pronunciation)

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Graduate School of Engineering
  Nagoya Institute of Technology
  Japan

  e-mail: zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
     web: http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen
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