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- The following people and organisations have contributed to the
- development of Festival in various ways. It is their work that makes
- it all possible.
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- Alan W Black overall design, most of the front end and software control
- Paul Taylor overall design, most of the back end
- Richard Caley for doing lots of difficult and boring bits
- Kevin Lenzo for speaking a bunch of different nonsense words,
- design and improvements to the clunits module,
- and co-author of the whole festvox project
- Alistair Conkie various low level code points and some design work
- Spanish synthesis, recording Roger
- Steve Isard design of diphone schema, LPC diphone code, and
- directorship
- EPSRC who funded awb and pault
- Carnegie Mellon University
- who fund awb
- David Huggins Daines (Cepstral, LLC)
- configure, and lots of Linux associated bugs
- Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- For believing in us and their generosity.
- AT&T Research Labs
- For providing funding and using our work
- Paradigm Assoc. and George Carrett
- For Scheme In One Defun
- CNET, France Telecom
- for use of Donovan diphones and some code in
- modules/donovan (used with permission)
- The beta testers
- Thanks for wanting to use the system, you make it
- worth doing. (And thanks for helping me debug my code.)
- You all responded to my requests fast and accurately
- thanks, even when I dumped last minute changes on you
- Andy Donovan for speaking a bunch of nonsense words
- Roger Burroughes for speaking another bunch of nonsense words
- Kurt Dusterhoff for speaking another bunch of nonsense words
- Amy Isard for her SSML project and related synthesizer
- Mike Macon for signal processing advice
- Richard Tobin for answering all those difficult questions,
- and the socket code, and rxp the XML parser
- Simmule Turner and Rich Salz
- command line editor: editline
- Borja Etxebarria
- For Spanish synthesis and answer signal processing
- questions
- Briony Williams Welsh synthesis
- Jacques H. de Villiers
- from CSLU at OGI, for the TCL interface.
- ATR and Nick Campbell
- for first allowing Paul and Alan to work together
- Oxford Text Archive
- For the computer users version of Oxford Advanced
- Learners' Dictionary redistributed with permission
- Reading University
- for access to MARSEC from which the phrase break
- model was trained.
- Mari Ostendorf For giving access to the FM Radio Corpus from which
- some models were trained.
- LDC & Penn Tree Bank
- from which the POS ragger was trained, redistribution
- of the models is with permission from the LDC.
- Grady Ward for the MOBY pronunciation lexicon
- FSF for G++, make, ....
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