84 lines
3.5 KiB
Plaintext
84 lines
3.5 KiB
Plaintext
Festival is currently actively developed by:
|
|
|
|
Alan W Black (Carnegie Mellon University)
|
|
Rob Clark (Edinburgh University)
|
|
Junichi Yamagishi (Edinburgh University)
|
|
Keiichiro Oura (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
|
|
|
|
The following people and organisations have contributed to the
|
|
development of Festival in various ways. It is their work that makes
|
|
it all possible.
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
Rob Clark Intonation, multisyn voice building, general developement and
|
|
maintenance.
|
|
Keiichiro Oura Updated HTS engine and API
|
|
Junichi Yamagishi
|
|
HTS voices
|
|
Korin Richmond Multisyn engine, swig wrappers and general developement.
|
|
Heiga Zen HTS engine
|
|
Brian Foley Mac OSX support
|
|
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 tagger was trained, redistribution
|
|
of the models is with permission from the LDC.
|
|
Grady Ward for the MOBY pronunciation lexicon
|
|
FSF for G++, make, ....
|
|
|
|
and others too.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|