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units) and manipulated (e.g. subset selection). This direction will include a layer
for compatibility with EMU.
• Festival: We are developing a Python wrapper for Festival, similar to pyHTK
for HTK. This development may have implications for changes in SpeechCluster.
SpeechCluster can be downloaded from the address given in the documentation
(Uemlianin 2005a). We are making it available under an open-source (BSD) license.
We take seriously the proposition that SpeechCluster should be a usable, shareable
resource. We encourage researchers and developers in the field to use SpeechCluster,
and we shall as far as possible maintain and update SpeechCluster in line with users’
requests.
5. Acknowledgements
This work is being carried out as part of the project ‘Welsh and Irish Speech
Processing Resources’ (WISPR) (Williams et al. 2005). WISPR is funded by the Interreg
IIIA European Union Programme and the Welsh Language Board. I would also like
to acknowledge support and feedback from other members of the WISPR team, in
particular Briony Williams and Aine Ni Bhrian.
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