1=============================================================================== 2 The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Engine "hts_engine API" version 1.10 3 release December 25, 2015 4 5 6The hts_engine API is an API version of hts_engine which has been released 7since HTS version 1.1. It has been being developed by the HTS working group 8(see "Who we are" below) and some graduate students in Nagoya Institute of 9Technology (see "AUTHORS" in the same directory). 10 11******************************************************************************* 12 Copying 13******************************************************************************* 14 15The hts_engine API is released under the Modified BSD license (see 16http://www.opensource.org/). 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We will consider consultancy if 69desired, please contacts us for details. 70 71If you are using the hts_engine API in commercial environments, even though no 72license is required, we would be grateful if you let us know as it helps 73justify ourselves to our various sponsors. We also strongly encourage you to 74 75 * refer to the use of hts_engine API in any publications that use this 76 software 77 * report bugs, where possible with bug fixes, that are found 78 79See also "COPYING" file in the current directory for details. 80 81******************************************************************************* 82 Installation 83******************************************************************************* 84 85See "INSTALL" in the same directory for details. 86 87******************************************************************************* 88 Documentation 89******************************************************************************* 90 91Reference manual of hts_engine API is available at 92 93http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/ 94 95******************************************************************************* 96 Acknowledgements 97******************************************************************************* 98 99Keiichi Tokuda 100Shinji Sako 101Heiga Zen 102Keiichiro Oura 103Kazuhiro Nakamura 104Keijiro Saino 105 106******************************************************************************* 107 Who we are 108******************************************************************************* 109 110The HTS working group is a voluntary group for developing the HMM-Based Speech 111Synthesis System. Current members are 112 113 Keiichi Tokuda http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/ 114 (Produce and Design) 115 Keiichiro Oura http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/ 116 (Design and Development, Main Maintainer) 117 Kei Hashimoto http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~bonanza/ 118 Shinji Takaki http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~k-prr44/ 119 Heiga Zen 120 Junichi Yamagishi http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/ 121 Tomoki Toda http://spalab.naist.jp/~tomoki/index_e.html 122 Takashi Nose 123 Shinji Sako http://www.mmsp.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/ 124 Alan W. Black http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/ 125 126and the members are dynamically changing. The current formal contact address of 127HTS working group and a mailing list for HTS users can be found at 128http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/ 129=============================================================================== 130