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                            HTS voice version 1.00
                          release September 29, 2008

HTS voice trained by using "CMU ARCTIC database"
(http://www.festvox.org/cmu_arctic/) is released as a part of
hts_engine API (http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/). This voice
consists of HMMs trained by using HMM-based Speech Synthesis
System (HTS) version 2.1 (http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/).

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HTS voice:

/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- */
/*           The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)             */
/*           HTS voice developed by HTS Working Group                */
/*           http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/                      */
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/*  Copyright (c) 2001-2008  Nagoya Institute of Technology          */
/*                           Department of Computer Science          */
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/*                2001-2008  Tokyo Institute of Technology           */
/*                           Interdisciplinary Graduate School of    */
/*                           Science and Engineering                 */
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CMU ARCTIC database:

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                                 Installation
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0) Download "hts_voice_arctic_slt-1.00.tar.gz" from
   http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/ and expand it.

1) type:

   % hts_engine \
     -td tree-dur.inf -tf tree-lf0.inf -tm tree-mgc.inf \
     -md dur.pdf      -mf lf0.pdf      -mm mgc.pdf \
     -df lf0.win1     -df lf0.win2     -df lf0.win3 \
     -dm mgc.win1     -dm mgc.win2     -dm mgc.win3 \
     -cf gv-lf0.pdf   -cm gv-mgc.pdf   -ow output.wav \
     input.lab

   (If you use flite+hts_engine)

   % flite_hts_engine \
     -td tree-dur.inf -tf tree-lf0.inf -tm tree-mgc.inf \
     -md dur.pdf      -mf lf0.pdf      -mm mgc.pdf \
     -df lf0.win1     -df lf0.win2     -df lf0.win3 \
     -dm mgc.win1     -dm mgc.win2     -dm mgc.win3 \
     -cf gv-lf0.pdf   -cm gv-mgc.pdf   -o  output.wav \
     input.txt

2) Now you can synthesize speech (output.wav) using the HTS voice.

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                                  Who we are
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The HTS working group is a voluntary group for developing the HMM-Based Speech
Synthesis System.  Current members are

 Keiichi Tokuda      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
 (Principle Designer)
 Keiichiro Oura      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/
 (Main Maintainer)
 Heiga Zen           http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/
 Junichi Yamagishi   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/
 Alan W. Black       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
 Takashi Masuko
 Shinji Sako         http://www.mmsp.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/
 Tomoki Toda         http://spalab.naist.jp/~tomoki/index_e.html
 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.sp.nitech.ac.jp/
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