[hts-users:01524] Re: Announce of maintainer change

["Xuchen Yao" <xuchenyao@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Heiga,

A million thanks to all your timely reply and great help. I believe
everyone in this maillist is impressed by your diligence and
intelligence. Wish you a bright future at Cambridge!

With kind regards,

Xuchen

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)
<zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all HTS users,
>
> I left Prof. Tokuda's group in Nitech last Friday and join Speech Technology
> Group, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory this Wednesday.  So I'd like to
> hand over the maintainer of HTS to Keiichiro Oura
> (http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec).  He is currently a PhD student in
> Nitech and has maintained hts_engine API for a year.
>
> I become less active in this ML, so please do not start your mail from "Hi
> Heiga".  Ask your questions to hts-users ML members, please.
>
> I took over the maintainer of HTS from Dr. Takayoshi Yoshimura when I was a
> master student, and I have developed and maintained HTS for 6 years.  Under
> my maintenance, HTS version 1.0, 1.1, 1.1b, 1.1.1, 2.0, 2.0.1, and 2.1 were
> released.  Fortunately, HTS has been getting popular in this period.  I've
> really enjoyed my role in the HTS working group.  This was so delightful
> time.
>
> I may keep working in speech synthesis area.  If you find me in any
> conference etc., please come and talk to me.  I'm very happy to hear how HTS
> is used and contribute to your research/business.
>
> I hope you to keep and enjoy using HTS :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Heiga ZEN (Byung Ha CHUN)
>
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>  Heiga ZEN     (in Japanese pronunciation)
>  Byung Ha CHUN (in Korean pronunciation)
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>  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>  Nagoya Institute of Technology
>  Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
>
>  http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~zen
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