This is a Debian prepackaged version of the festival 16k diphone database.

This package was put together by Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>, using
sources from:
        http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html

This directory contains a diphone synthesizer voice for American English.
This distribution falls under the following copyright.   See further
notes below copyright.

                    Alan W Black and Kevin Lenzo
                         Copyright (c) 1998
                        All Rights Reserved.

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute
  this software and its documentation without restriction, including
  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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  permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so, subject to
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   1. The code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
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   2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such.
   3. Original authors' names are not deleted.
   4. The authors' names are not used to endorse or promote products
      derived from this software without specific prior written
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  THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK
  DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
  ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT
  SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
  FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
  WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN
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  ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF
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Note this voice cotains a file Copyright CSTR, University of Edinburgh
under the same lincences as the above.  The voice also requires the
separate distributions festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz.
festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz is copyright CSTR under the same free licence
while festlex_CMU.tar.gz contain material derived from material
copyright by Carnegie Mellon University, though their licence is as
free as the one above so.

This voice was created while awb was visiting the speech group at
CMU in fall 98.
