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The Festival Speech Synthesis System: version 1.4.3
Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh, UK
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3. Acknowledgements
The code in this system was primarily written by Alan W Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley. Festival sits on top
of the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library, and uses much of its functionality.
Amy Isard wrote a synthesizer for her MSc project in 1995, which first used the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library.
Although Festival doesn't contain any code from that system, her system was used as a basic model.
Much of the design and philosophy of Festival has been built on the experience both Paul and Alan gained from the
development of various previous synthesizers and software systems, especially CSTR's Osprey and Polyglot systems
taylor91 and ATR's CHATR system black94.
However, it should be stated that Festival is fully developed at CSTR and contains neither proprietary code or ideas.
Festival contains a number of subsystems integrated from other sources and we acknowledge those systems here.
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3.1 SIOD
The Scheme interpreter (SIOD -- Scheme In One Defun 3.0) was written by George Carrett (gjc@mitech.com,
gjc@paradigm.com) and offers a basic small Scheme (Lisp) interpreter suitable for embedding in applications such