2 Copying

This document was originally written while AWB was a visiting scholar at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. This document and its related scripts are free, and may be used for any purpose subject to the minimal restrictions specified in the license below

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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.

As Festival and the documentation and scripts that are part of festvox are free to be used for commercial and non-commercial projects alike. We believe we have delivered sufficient instructions and tools for you to build your voices free from any restriction imposed by us (CMU or Edinburgh). Thus if you wish to create a proprietary voice Festival and Festvox tools will not inhibit that, but of course you must ensure you have rights from other resources you use such as, lexicons, display tools etc.

Note that the following files which are included in this distribution have a different copyright from the above

`config/make_system.mak'

`config/system.sh'

`src/vox_diphone/festvox/INST_us_VOX_dur.scm'

`src/vox_diphone/festvox/INST_uk_VOX_dur.scm'

these are derived from code in the Festival distribution and hence are copyright, University of Edinburgh, but under a similarly free license as above

`doc/texinfo.tex'

Is Copyright Free Software Foundation and is distributed under the GPL. This file does not affect the copyright of any other file in the system and is only used in generating the manual. It is included in this distribution due there being a number of different version around.

2.1 Acknowledgements

This document was originally written while AWB was a visiting researcher at the Robotics Institute, at Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 98. AWB later returned to Language Technologies Institute at CMU, as research faculty in Summer 99 and since then he and KAL have added substantially to the documentation and related scripts.

Raj Reddy

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

CMU

for funding the visit

Edinburgh University

For releasing Festival and the Speech Tools as free software, and making it well-designed, stable and portable. Also for the basic config setup (which RJC wrote).

OGI

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.

VA Linux (http://www.valinux.com):

For donating hardware that hosts festvox.org.

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