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* [[HTS voice for Festival README]] [#v8af90ea] ================================================================ HTS voices for Festival 1.95 & 1.96 release December 29, 2006 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 2.0 (http://hts.ics.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. Any modifications to the source code must be clearly ;; :: marked as such. ;; ;; ;; ;; 3. Original authors' names are not deleted. ;; ;; ;; ;; 4. 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The source code must retain the above copyright notice, # # this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # # # # 2. Any modifications to the source code must be clearly # # marked as such. # # # # 3. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above # # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the # # following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other # # materials provided with the distribution. Otherwise, one # # must contact the HTS working group. # # # # NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOKYO INSTITUTE 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 INSTITUTE 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. # # # # --------------------------------------------------------------- # **************************************************************** Installation **************************************************************** *** Installation of HTS Voice *** (nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz, nitech_us_rms_arctic_hts.tar.gz, and nitech_us_jmk_arctic_hts.tar.gz) 0) Download "nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.tar.gz" from http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/ and expand it in the directory which you installed the Festival. 1) Run Festival 2) To change the current voice, type: festival> (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) 3) Now you can synthesize speech using the HTS voice in the framework of Festival. See the manual of Festival. Example: festival > (intro) festival > (SayText "Alice was beginning to get tired.") **************************************************************** Who we are **************************************************************** 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/ ================================================================
