2 Copying

This document was written while AWB was a visiting scholar at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. This document is copyright Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo 1998 with all rights reserved but may be freely used for any purpose, with some minor restrictions. This document and the scripts distributed with it is distributed under the following conditions

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The authors of this document, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Edinburgh make no further claim on any voices built using the information in this document. Voices built using the information in this document are the responsibility of the builders. Any restrictions on the distribution, rights and ownership of the voices are a direct consequence of the actual resources that go in them. Of course if you re-use any part of an existing Festival voice your voice will inherit any of those restrictions. However this only applies if you actually include some code, using existing voices for training or testing does not restrict the new voice.

Note this document does not remove any restrictions in the use of Festival or the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library and any voice generated although (if the rights permit) can be used commercially will still require the users of the commercial voice to have the appropriate rights for Festival itself.

2.1 Acknowledgements

The following people and organizations deserve acknowledgement for help making this document exist.

Raj Reddy

for inviting AWB to CMU to allow him to work with KAL

CMU

for funding the visit

OGI and Fonix

for hosting a workshop in June 98 to build a German voice in Festival which showed the need for a document such as this.

Maria Walters, Borja Etxebarria, Mike Macon, Argyris Biris, Stephen Robert Norris, Karin Mueller, Bettina Saeuberlich, Horst Meyer, Gregor Moehler, Mark Breitenbuech, Dominika Oliver, Tae-Yeoub Jang and Weonhee Yun

Who persevered in building voices in Festival without this document, asking questions and finding problems that made it easier to decide what should be included here.

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