This is a Debian prepackaged version of the festival 16k diphone database.
This package was put together by Joey Hess , 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.
Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh, UK
Copyright (c) 1997
All Rights Reserved.
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Note this voice also requires the separate distributions
festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz and festlex_CMU.tar.gz. festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz
fall under the same copyright as the above but festlex_CMU.tar.gz contain
material derived from material copyright by Carnegie Mellon University,
though their licence is as free as ours above so.