The code in this system was primarily written by Alan W Black with major contributions both on design and actual coding by Paul Taylor and Richard Caley. Festival sits on top of the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library, and uses much of its functionality.
Amy Isard wrote a synthesizer for her MSc project in 1995, which first used the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library. Although Festival doesn't contain any code from that system, her system was used as a basic model.
Alistair Conkie also gave much input (and some code) including the general diphone selection code.
Much of the design and philosophy of Festival has been built on the experience both Paul and Alan gained from the development of various previous synthesizers and software systems, especially CSTR's Osprey and Polyglot systems taylor91 and ATR's CHATR system black94.
However, it should be stated that Festival is fully developed at CSTR and contains neither proprietary code or ideas.
Festival contains a number of subsystems integrated from other sources and we acknowledge those systems here.
The Scheme interpreter (SIOD -- Scheme In One Defun 3.0) was written by George Carrett (gjc@mitech.com, gjc@paradigm.com) and offers a basic small Scheme (Lisp) interpreter suitable for embedding in applications such as Festival as a scripting language. A number of changes and improvements have been added in our development but it still remains that basic system. We are grateful to George and Paradigm Associates Incorporated for providing such a useful and well-written sub-system.
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The Edinburgh Speech Tools lies at the core of Festival. Although developed separately, much of the development of certain parts of the Edinburgh Speech Tools has been directed by Festival's needs. In turn those who have contributed to the Speech Tools make Festival a more usable system.
See section `Acknowledgements' in Edinburgh Speech Tools Library Manual.
Online information about the Edinburgh Speech Tools library is available through
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/speechtools.html
Many others have provided actual code and support for Festival, for which we are grateful. Specifically,
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