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      The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Engine "hts_engine API" version 1.10
                           release December 25, 2015


The hts_engine API is an API version of hts_engine which has been released
since HTS version 1.1. It has been being developed by the HTS working group
(see "Who we are" below) and some graduate students in Nagoya Institute of
Technology (see "AUTHORS" in the same directory).

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The hts_engine API is released under the Modified BSD license (see
http://www.opensource.org/). Using and distributing this software is free
(without restriction including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of this
work, and to permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so) subject to
the conditions in the following license:



Although this software is free, we still offer no warranties and no
maintenance. We will continue to endeavor to fix bugs and answer queries when
can, but are not in a position to guarantee it. We will consider consultancy if
desired, please contacts us for details.

If you are using the hts_engine API in commercial environments, even though no
license is required, we would be grateful if you let us know as it helps
justify ourselves to our various sponsors. We also strongly encourage you to

 * refer to the use of hts_engine API in any publications that use this
   software
 * report bugs, where possible with bug fixes, that are found

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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                                 Documentation
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Reference manual of hts_engine API is available at

http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/

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                               Acknowledgements
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Keiichi Tokuda
Shinji Sako
Heiga Zen
Keiichiro Oura
Kazuhiro Nakamura
Keijiro Saino

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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/
 Shinji Takaki       http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~k-prr44/
 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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