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2This directory contains a diphone synthesizer voice for American English.
3This distribution falls under the following copyright.   See further
4notes below copyright.
5
6                    Alan W Black and Kevin Lenzo
7                         Copyright (c) 1998
8                        All Rights Reserved.
9
10  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute
11  this software and its documentation without restriction, including
12  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
13  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of this work, and to
14  permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so, subject to
15  the following conditions:
16   1. The code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
17      conditions and the following disclaimer.
18   2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such.
19   3. Original authors' names are not deleted.
20   4. The authors' names are not used to endorse or promote products
21      derived from this software without specific prior written
22      permission.
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24  THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK
25  DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
26  ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT
27  SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
28  FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
29  WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN
30  AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
31  ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF
32  THIS SOFTWARE.
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34Note this voice cotains a file Copyright CSTR, University of Edinburgh
35under the same lincences as the above.  The voice also requires the
36separate distributions festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz.
37festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz is copyright CSTR under the same free licence
38while festlex_CMU.tar.gz contain material derived from material
39copyright by Carnegie Mellon University, though their licence is as
40free as the one above so.
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42This voice was created while awb was visiting the speech group at
43CMU in fall 98.
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