                                
                   HTS Voices for GalateaTalk
                       December 26, 2003
                                   
An HTS voice for GalateaTalk trained by using 450 utterances of
the NIT database for speech synthesis "NIT JP m001 ATR503" is
released as a part of HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)
version 1.1.1 (http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/).  The HTS voice can
be used as a voice of GalateaTalk, which is a speech synthesis
module of an open-source toolkit for anthropomorphic spoken
dialogue agents developed in Galatea project
(http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~galatea/), without any other HTS
tools.

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The copyright on codes of the HTS voice is

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   The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS): version 1.1.1
                      HTS Working Group

                 Department of Computer Science
                 Nagoya Institute of Technology
                              and
  Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
                 Tokyo Institute of Technology
                    Copyright (c) 2001-2003
                      All Rights Reserved.

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  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.
                                                                       
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The copyright on the NIT speech database, which is used for
training the HTS voice, is

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               NIT database for speech synthesis
                   release December 26, 2003

                 Department of Computer Science
                 Nagoya Institute of Technology

                       Copyright (c) 2003
                      All Rights Reserved.
                                
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. Licensor has the right to terminate this License
     immediately upon notice to Licensee.  Upon termination of
     this License, Licensee must cease all use of the Software
     and destroy all copies, full or partial, of the Software.
                                                                       
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DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
EVENT SHALL NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 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
TORTUOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
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Self-explanatory.  Sorry..

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

  Keiichi Tokuda (Organizer) http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
  Heiga Zen (Maintainer)     http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/
  Takashi Masuko             http://sp-www.ip.titech.ac.jp/~masuko/
  Shinji Sako                http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/
  Jun-ichi Yamagishi         
  Daiki Sanno                
  Masatsune Tamura           
  Takayoshi Yoshimura        
  Alan W. Black              http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
  Ryosuke Tsuzuki            http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~ryosuke/
  Shunsuke Kataoka           http://kt-lab.ics.nitech.ac.jp/~shunsuke/

and the members are dynamically changing.  The current formal
contact address of HTS working group and a mailing list for HTS
usesrs can be found at http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/

