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| The initial development of flite was primarily done by awb while |
| travelling, perhaps the name is doubly appropriate as a substantial |
| amount of the coding was done over 30,000ft). During most of that |
| time awb was funded by the Language Technonologies Institute at |
| Carnegie Mellon University. |
| |
| Kevin A. Lenzo was involved in the design, conversion techniques and |
| representions for the voice distributed with flite (as well as being |
| the actual kal voice itself). |
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| Other contributions are: |
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| Henry Spencer |
| For the regex code |
| University of Edinburgh |
| for releasing Festival for free, making a companion runtime synthesizer |
| a practical project, much of the design of flite relies on the |
| architecture decisions made in the Festival Speech Synthesis Systems and |
| the Edinburgh Speech Tools. |
| The duration cart tree and intonation (accent and F0) models were |
| derived from the models in the Festival distribution. which in turn |
| were trained from the Boston University FM Radio Data Corpus. |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
| The included lexicon is derived from CMULEX and the letter to sound |
| rules are constructed using the Lenzo and Black techniques for |
| building LTS decision graphs. |
| Nagoya Institute of Technology |
| The mlsa code derives from HTS (following a long chain) |
| Tomoki Toda |
| The mlsa and mlpg support came view Tomoki's support for voice convertion |
| in FestVox which in turn (some of which) comes from NITECH's HTS. |
| Marcela Charfuelan (DFKI) |
| For the mixed-excitation techniques. These originally came from NITECH |
| but we understood the technqiues from Marcela's Open Mary Java code and |
| implemented them in our optimized version of MLSA. |
| David Huggins-Daines (dhd@cepstral.com) |
| much of the clunits code, porting to multiple platforms, substantial |
| code tidy up and configure/autoconf guidance. |
| Cepstral, LLC (http://cepstral.com) |
| For supporting DHD to spend time (in 2001) on flite and passing |
| back the important early fixes and enhancements including SAPI |
| support (funded by Portuguese FCT to produce an open source |
| synthesis solution). |
| Willie Walker <william.walker@sun.com> and the rest of the Sun Speech Group |
| lots of low level bugs (and fixes). |
| Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Praxis XXI program |
| The SAPI interface provided by Cepstral, LLC was partially funded by |
| the above program. |
| Craig Reese: IDA/Supercomputing Research Center |
| Joe Campbell: Department of Defense |
| who wrote the ulaw conversion routines in src/speech/cst_wave_utils.c |
| Mario Lang: |
| causing the support of shared libraries to happen |
| Eric House (fixin@peak.org) |
| who provided examples of how to do 68K Call Backs for system functions |
| Greg Parker gparker@sealiesoftware.com |
| peal, the binding glue and shared library foo for getting the arm |
| version doing something reasonable under PalmOS |
| Lukas Loehrer <loehrerl@gmx.net> Feb 2006 |
| alsa support (default if available) |
| Udhyakumar N |
| For making the mixed excitation code work, and show its value |
| Brian Langner |
| redid the Visual Studio support |
| Alok Parlikar |
| Android support, and cg voice dumping (and loading), indic support |
| Gopala Anumanchipalli |
| spamf0 support, unitran integration |
| Richard Sproat and Kyoung-young Kim (UIUC) |
| Unitran: unicode to sampa grapheme mapping tables |
| Sun Microsystems |
| g72x code |
