Re: [open-jtalk-users] 女性：Mei どこ

[Keiichiro O. <ur...@sp...>]

Hi, all

Executable code of ``Open JTalk'' include ``hts_engine API'' and ``MeCab.''
They are released under the BSD license.
So, *3* copyright must be included with the executable code in your
distribution.

Please, note that ``CC BY'' license is different from the ``BSD'' license.

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura

2011/7/25 Keiichiro Oura <ur...@sp...>:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.
> I'll modify documents in the next version.
>
> Regards,
> Keiichiro Oura
>
>
> 2011/7/22 Yosuke Matsusaka <yos...@ai...>:
>> Oura-san
>>
>> Thank you for your comment.
>> We will modify our software as you wish. In the next version we will
>> show your credit at the install step and the boot step.
>> Also, it might be better to show the caution to the user that CC license
>> will be applied to the synthesized voice as well (both in the manual page
>> and the software).
>>
>> I will try to keep aware of the CC license. If you find any new problem,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yosuke
>>
>> 2011/7/22 Keiichiro Oura <ur...@sp...>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure, but...
>>> You don't have to show the credit for *each* time the voice (CC BY
>>> license) is played.
>>> I would be most happy if you show the credit to users at install step
>>> or boot step or first speech synthesis step.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I'm not lawyer (or creative commons member).
>>> Please read section 4 of http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Keiichiro Oura
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/7/22 Yosuke Matsusaka <yos...@ai...>:
>>>> Dear Oura-san
>>>>
>>>> First of all, thank you so much for distributing such a useful software.
>>>>
>>>> I have a question about the license restriction.
>>>>
>>>> We are currently developing a dialog toolkit for robots partly based
>>>> on your software.
>>>> http://openhri.net/
>>>> We try hard as possible to clarify the original copyright of each middlewares.
>>>> Although, it is sometimes difficult to show the copyright at the same
>>>> time for the
>>>> play of voices (because it is embedded in the robots).
>>>>
>>>> Would you teach me how strict is your license?
>>>>
>>>> We are currently:
>>>> 1. Embedding the original license to the installer package.
>>>> 2. Showing the acknowledgement on the manual page.
>>>> But:
>>>> 3. Not showing the copyright for each time the voice is played.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Yosuke Matsusaka (AIST)
>>>>
>>>> 2011/7/22 Keiichiro Oura <ur...@sp...>:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> HTS Voice "Mei (Normal)" can be downloaded from http://www.mmdagent.jp/.
>>>>> It is released under the CC BY license.
>>>>> And, hts_voice_nitech_jp_atr503_m001-1.04 is also released under the
>>>>> same license.
>>>>> Please, see README and COPYING files for details.
>>>>>
>>>>> This license allows you to use the voices for the commercial or
>>>>> non-commercial project.
>>>>> But, you *must* show licensor's name, etc. to all users which listen
>>>>> to the waveform synthesized from these voices.
>>>>> See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ for details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Keiichiro Oura
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/7/22 patrick <pur...@11...>:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this demo page:
>>>>>> http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/demo/open_jtalk/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We can select a female voice called Mei. I would like to use this voice
>>>>>> for a non-commercial project. Is it possible to download it somewhere?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If not, anyone knows if it is possible to use the Japanese voice listed
>>>>>> here:
>>>>>> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/Demo-html/map-new.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scroll down to Japanese corpora. Sound very nice!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The last solution is to ask a friend to record her voice, but how hard
>>>>>> (hours / technology) it is?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
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>> Yosuke Matsusaka, Ph.D  <yos...@ai...>
>>   Interaction Modeling Group /
>>   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
>>   Tel: 029-862-6726  Web: http://staff.aist.go.jp/yosuke.matsusaka/
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