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The initial development of flite was primarily done by awb while travelling, perhaps the name is doubly appropriate as a substantial amount of the coding was done over 30,000ft). During most of that time awb was funded by the Language Technonologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Kevin A. Lenzo was involved in the design, conversion techniques and representions for the voice distributed with flite (as well as being the actual kal voice itself). Other contributions are: Henry Spencer For the regex code University of Edinburgh for releasing Festival for free, making a companion runtime synthesizer a practical project, much of the design of flite relies on the architecture decisions made in the Festival Speech Synthesis Systems and the Edinburgh Speech Tools. The duration cart tree and intonation (accent and F0) models were derived from the models in the Festival distribution. which in turn were trained from the Boston University FM Radio Data Corpus. Carnegie Mellon University The included lexicon is derived from CMULEX and the letter to sound rules are constructed using the Lenzo and Black techniques for building LTS decision graphs. Nagoya Institute of Technology The mlsa code derives from HTS (following a long chain) Tomoki Toda The mlsa and mlpg support came view Tomoki's support for voice convertion in FestVox which in turn (some of which) comes from NITECH's HTS. Marcela Charfuelan (DFKI) For the mixed-excitation techniques. These originally came from NITECH but we understood the technqiues from Marcela's Open Mary Java code and implemented them in our optimized version of MLSA. David Huggins-Daines (dhd@cepstral.com) much of the clunits code, porting to multiple platforms, substantial code tidy up and configure/autoconf guidance. Cepstral, LLC (http://cepstral.com) For supporting DHD to spend time (in 2001) on flite and passing back the important early fixes and enhancements including SAPI support (funded by Portuguese FCT to produce an open source synthesis solution). Willie Walker <william.walker@sun.com> and the rest of the Sun Speech Group lots of low level bugs (and fixes). Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Praxis XXI program The SAPI interface provided by Cepstral, LLC was partially funded by the above program. Craig Reese: IDA/Supercomputing Research Center Joe Campbell: Department of Defense who wrote the ulaw conversion routines in src/speech/cst_wave_utils.c Mario Lang: causing the support of shared libraries to happen Eric House (fixin@peak.org) who provided examples of how to do 68K Call Backs for system functions Greg Parker gparker@sealiesoftware.com peal, the binding glue and shared library foo for getting the arm version doing something reasonable under PalmOS Lukas Loehrer <loehrerl@gmx.net> Feb 2006 alsa support (default if available) Udhyakumar N For making the mixed excitation code work, and show its value Brian Langner redid the Visual Studio support Alok Parlikar Android support, and cg voice dumping (and loading), indic support Gopala Anumanchipalli spamf0 support, unitran integration Richard Sproat and Kyoung-young Kim (UIUC) Unitran: unicode to sampa grapheme mapping tables Sun Microsystems g72x code Larry McCourry Windows Visual Student support for 2.0.0 Cobalt Speech and Language Inc Updates to Visual Studio Support and Support for Clustergen Voices under SAPI Suresh Bazaj and Shyam Krishna Indian Language support