1 This work was packaged for Debian by:
3 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:57:48 -0600
5 It was downloaded from:
7 http://freetts.sourceforge.net
11 FreeTTS was built by the Speech Integration Group of Sun Microsystems
12 Laboratories, who may be contacted via the FreeTTS Forums:
14 http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetts/forums
16 * Willie Walker, Manager and Principal Investigator
17 * Paul Lamere, Staff Engineer
18 * Philip Kwok, Member of Technical Staff
20 FreeTTS is based on CMU's Flite, written by:
25 Kevin and Alan generated the data used by FreeTTS. In addition, Kevin
26 is the voice behind the diphone voices (kevin 8k, kevin 16k), and Alan
27 is the voice behind the speaking clock.
29 Support for MBROLA voice output was contributed by Marc Schröder,
30 text-to-speech Researcher in the Language Technology Lab at DFKI,
33 Support for importing FestVox voices into FreeTTS, and support for
34 dynamically discovering and loading voices was developed by David Vos,
35 a Sun Microsystems Laboratories student intern.
39 Portions Copyright 2001-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
41 Portions Copyright 1999-2001 Language Technologies Institute,
42 Carnegie Mellon University.
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