The Festival MSAPI Interface was developed by :

 

      Dr Rhys J Jones (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr), University of Wales, Bangor)

      Ambrose Choy (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr), University of Wales, Bangor)

      Dewi B Jones (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr), University of Wales, Bangor)

 

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

 

      Dr Briony Williams (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr), University of Wales, Bangor)

      Dr Rhys J Jones (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr), University of Wales, Bangor)

      Dr Ivan Uemlianin (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr), University of Wales, Bangor)

 

 

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

 

WISPR was sponsored by the

 

European Union INTERREG IIIA Community Initiative Programme

 

with additional funding by the Welsh Language Board.

 

The following organisations have contributed to the the WISPR project.

 

      Trinity College Dublin

      University College Dublin

      Dublin City University

      Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann

 

 

 

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

developed mainly by

 

      Alan W Black            (Carnegie Mellon University)

      David Huggins-Daines    (Carnegie Mellon University)

      Rob Clark               (Edinburgh University)

      Korin Richmond          (Edinburgh University)

      Heiga Zen               (Nagoya Institute of Technology)

 

and a number of others too.