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Notice: many prompts in "English Speech Files" were adapted from the prompt files contained in the CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis database, which were in turn derived from out-of-copyright texts from Project Gutenberg, by the FestVox project at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |
Hi Christopher,
The audio sounds great - very little noise. Thanks for the submission.
I've committed it to our subversion repository on the VoxForge Dev server. When we get enough audio, I'll create updated acoustic models.
Just
a note your the license - you are correct to state that the original
copyright owner owns the copyright of the text, however, you created a
derivative work (your speech audio submission) of the the copyrighted
text, and you have copyright protection on your creation - that is what
we are subjecting to the GPL license. I updated your license on
VoxForge to reflect this.
all the best,
Ken
--- (Edited on 10/11/2006 1:22 pm [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---
Notice: many prompts in "English Speech Files" were adapted from the prompt files contained in the CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis database, which were in turn derived from out-of-copyright texts from Project Gutenberg, by the FestVox project at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |
Please submit as much speech as you can!
The target amount of audio for release 1.0 of the VoxForge Speech Audio Repository is 140 hours of speech (why? this is the same amount of audio used by the Sphinx Acoustic Models used by the Sphinx Group Speech Recognition Engines.)
thanks,
Ken
Notice: many prompts in "English Speech Files" were adapted from the prompt files contained in the CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis database, which were in turn derived from out-of-copyright texts from Project Gutenberg, by the FestVox project at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |