The Festival MSAPI Interface was developed by :
Dr Rhys J Jones (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr),
Ambrose Choy (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr),
Dewi B Jones
(Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr),
Welsh language voices provided with the MSAPI software is developed by:
Dr Briony Williams (Language Technologies (Canolfan
Bedwyr),
Dr Rhys J
Jones (Language Technologies (Canolfan Bedwyr),
Dr Ivan Uemlianin (Language Technologies (Canolfan
Bedwyr),
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.
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 (
David Huggins-Daines (
Rob Clark (
Korin Richmond (
Heiga Zen (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
and a number of others too.