The Open JTalk is a Japanese TTS System. It has been being developed by HTS working group (see "Who we are" below) and some graduate students in Nagoya Institute of Technology (see "AUTHORS" in the same directory).
The Open JTalk is released under the Modified 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:
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/* The Japanese TTS System "Open JTalk" */
/* developed by HTS Working Group */
/* http://open-jtalk.sourceforge.net/ */
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/* Copyright (c) 2008-2013 Nagoya Institute of Technology */
/* Department of Computer Science */
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- refer to the use of Open JTalk in any publications that use this software
- report bugs, where possible with bug fixes, that are found
See also three "COPYING" files in "mecab", "mecab-naist-jdic", and the current directory for details.
See "INSTALL" in the same directory for details.
Keiichi Tokuda Keiichiro Oura Shinji Sako Galatea Project
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/ (Produce and Design) Keiichiro Oura http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/ (Design and Development, Main Maintainer) Kei Hashimoto http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~bonanza/ Sayaka Shiota http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~sayaka/ Shinji Takaki http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~k-prr44/ Heiga Zen Junichi Yamagishi http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/ Tomoki Toda http://spalab.naist.jp/~tomoki/index_e.html Takashi Nose Shinji Sako http://www.mmsp.nitech.ac.jp/~sako/ Alan W. Black http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/
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/