Festival MSAPI Interface is currently actively developed by :

Dr Rhys J Jones (University of Wales, Bangor)

Ambrose Choy (University of Wales, Bangor)

Dewi B Jones (University of Wales, Bangor)

Welsh language voice provided with the MSAPI software is developed by:

Dr Briony Williams (University of Wales, Bangor)

Dr Ivan Uemlianin (University of Wales, Bangor)

All work is done under the WISPR (Welsh and Irish Speech Processing Resources) project.

The following organisations have either sponsored or contributed to the the WISPR project.

European Union INTERREG IIIA Community Initiative Programme

Welsh Language Board

Trinity College Dublin

University College Dublin

Dublin City Universtiy

Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann

WISPR would not have been possible without the availability of the Festival Speech

System developed mainly by

Alan W Black (Carnegie Mellon University)

Rob Clark (Edinburgh University)

Korin Richmond (Edinburgh University)

Heiga Zen (Nagoya Institute of Technology)

and a number of others too.