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                   HTS Voice "NIT ATR503 M001" version 1.02
                           release December 25, 2010


HTS voice trained by using the Nitech Japanese Speech Database "NIT ATR503
M001" is released as a part of Open JTalk (http://open-jtalk.sourceforge.net/).
This voice consists of HMMs trained by using HMM-based Speech Synthesis System
(HTS) version 2.2 alpha (http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/).

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See also "COPYING" file in the current directory for details.

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                                 Installation
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See "INSTALL" in the same directory for details.

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                               Acknowledgements
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Keiichi Tokuda
Shinji Sako
Heiga Zen
Keiichiro Oura

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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/
 (Produce and Design)
 Keiichiro Oura      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/
 (Design and Development, Main Maintainer)
 Kei Hashimoto       http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~bonanza/
 Sayaka Shiota       http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~sayaka/
 Heiga Zen
 Junichi Yamagishi   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/
 Tomoki Toda         http://spalab.naist.jp/~tomoki/index_e.html
 Takashi Nose
 Shinji Sako         http://www.mmsp.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/
 Alan W. Black       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/

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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