Festival Speech Synthesis System: - Speech Resource Pages

3.3 Edinburgh Speech Tools Library
The Edinburgh Speech Tools lies at the core of Festival. Although developed separately, much of the development of
certain parts of the Edinburgh Speech Tools has been directed by Festival's needs. In turn those who have contributed
to the Speech Tools make Festival a more usable system.
See section `Acknowledgements' in Edinburgh Speech Tools Library Manual.
Online information about the Edinburgh Speech Tools library is available through
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/speech_tools.html
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3.4 Others
Many others have provided actual code and support for Festival, for which we are grateful. Specifically,
● Alistair Conkie: various low level code points and some design work, Spanish synthesis, the old diphone
synthesis code.
● Steve Isard: directorship and LPC diphone code, design of diphone schema.
● EPSRC: who fund Alan Black and Paul Taylor.
● Sun Microsystems Laboratories: for supporting the project and funding Richard.
● AT&T Labs - Research: for supporting the project.
● Paradigm Associates and George Carrett: for Scheme in one defun.
● Mike Macon: Improving the quality of the diphone synthesizer and LPC analysis.
● Kurt Dusterhoff: Tilt intonation training and modelling.
● Amy Isard: for her SSML project and related synthesizer.
● Richard Tobin: for answering all those difficult questions, the socket code, and the XML parser.
● Simmule Turner and Rich Salz: command line editor (editline)
● Borja Etxebarria: Help with the Spanish synsthesis
● Briony Williams: Welsh synthesis
● Jacques H. de Villiers: `jacques@cse.ogi.edu' from CSLU at OGI, for the TCL interface, and other
usability issues
● Kevin Lenzo: `lenzo@cs.cmu.edu' from CMU for the PERL interface.
● Rob Clarke: for support under Linux.
● Samuel Audet `guardia@cam.org': OS/2 support
● Mari Ostendorf: For providing access to the BU FM Radio corpus from which some modules were trained.
● Melvin Hunt: from whose work we based our residual LPC synthesis model on
● Oxford Text Archive: For the computer users version of Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary (redistributed
with permission).
● Reading University: for access to MARSEC from which the phrase break model was trained.
● LDC & Penn Tree Bank: from which the POS tagger was trained, redistribution of the models is with
permission from the LDC.
● Roger Burroughes and Kurt Dusterhoff: For letting us capture their voices.
● ATR and Nick Campbell: for first getting Paul and Alan to work together and for the experience we gained.
● FSF: for G++, make, ....
● Center for Spoken Language Understanding: CSLU at OGI, particularly Ron Cole and Mike Macon, have
acted as significant users for the system giving significant feedback and allowing us to teach courses on
Festival offering valuable real-use feedback.
● Our beta testers: Thanks to all the people who put up with previous versions of the system and reported bugs,
both big and small. These comments are very important to the constant improvements in the system. And
thanks for your quick responses when I had specific requests.
● And our users ... Many people have downloaded earlier versions of the system. Many have found problems
with installation and use and have reported it to us. Many of you have put up with multiple compilations