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                        The hts_engine API version 1.0
                             release June 27, 2008


The hts_engine_API is an API version of hts_engine which has been releases 
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 New and Simplified 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:

/*  ---------------------------------------------------------------  */
/*           The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS)             */
/*           developed by HTS Working Group                          */
/*           http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/                             */
/*  ---------------------------------------------------------------  */
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/*  Copyright (c) 2001-2008  Nagoya Institute of Technology          */
/*                           Department of Computer Science          */
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/*                2001-2008  Tokyo Institute of Technology           */
/*                           Interdisciplinary Graduate School of    */
/*                           Science and Engineering                 */
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/* All rights reserved.                                              */
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/* without modification, are permitted provided that the following   */
/* conditions are met:                                               */
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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 "COPYING" in the same 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.sp.nitech.ac.jp/?Reference%20of%20hts_engine%20API

PDF version of the above web page is also included in this release.

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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/
 (Principle Designer)
 Heiga Zen           http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~zen/
 (Main Maintainer)
 Junichi Yamagishi   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/
 Alan W. Black       http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
 Takashi Masuko
 Shinji Sako         http://www.mmsp.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/
 Tomoki Toda         http://spalab.naist.jp/~tomoki/index_e.html
 Takashi Nose
 Keiichiro Oura      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/

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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