This work was packaged for Debian by: Bdale Garbee on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:57:48 -0600 It was downloaded from: http://freetts.sourceforge.net Upstream Author(s): FreeTTS was built by the Speech Integration Group of Sun Microsystems Laboratories, who may be contacted via the FreeTTS Forums: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetts/forums * Willie Walker, Manager and Principal Investigator * Paul Lamere, Staff Engineer * Philip Kwok, Member of Technical Staff FreeTTS is based on CMU's Flite, written by: * Alan Black * Kevin Lenzo Kevin and Alan generated the data used by FreeTTS. In addition, Kevin is the voice behind the diphone voices (kevin 8k, kevin 16k), and Alan is the voice behind the speaking clock. Support for MBROLA voice output was contributed by Marc Schröder, text-to-speech Researcher in the Language Technology Lab at DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany. Support for importing FestVox voices into FreeTTS, and support for dynamically discovering and loading voices was developed by David Vos, a Sun Microsystems Laboratories student intern. Copyright: Portions Copyright 2001-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Portions Copyright 1999-2001 Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. License: 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 code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such. 3. Original authors' names are not deleted. 4. The authors' names are not used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 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 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 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 TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. The Debian packaging is: Copyright (C) 2010 Bdale Garbee and is licensed under the GPL version 3, see "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3".