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                        The MAGE beta version 1.0
                        release September 30, 2011

pHTS (performative HTS) allows reactive speech synthesis and it is based on 
the HMM-Based Speech Synthesis System (HTS). MAGE is the engine independent 
and thread safe layer of pHTS and can be used in reactive application designs. 
For the synthesis of the speech waveform we use HMMs trained by HTS. 

It has been developed by University of Mons – NUMEDIART Institute and 
Acapela Group. (see "Who we are" below and "AUTHORS" in the same directory).  



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This software is released under the GNU General Public License as published 
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the license, or any 
later version.
See the COPYING file in the same directory as this file for the license.

Although this software is free, we still offer no warranties and no maintenance.  
We will continue to endeavor to fix bugs and answer queries when we can, but 
are not in a position to guarantee it.  We will consider consultancy if desired, 
please contacts us for details (see "AUTHORS" in the same directory).

We strongly encourage you to

 * report bugs, where possible with bug fixes, that are found

See "COPYING" in the same directory for details.


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                                 Installation
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See "INSTALL" in the same directory for details.

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                                 Documentation
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Reference manual of MAGE and pHTS is available at

	http://www.numediart.org/demos/mage_phts/

PDF version of the above web page is also included in this release.

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                                  Who we are
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MAGE and pHTS has been developed by several members of 
University of Mons – NUMEDIART Institute and Acapela Group. 

Current members are :

Maria Astrinaki	( Main Maintainer / Developer )		
	http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/~astrinaki/      maria.astrinaki@umons.ac.be  
	
Geoffrey Wilfart
	geoffrey.wilfart@acapela-group.com
											
Alexis Moinet 			
	http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/~moinet/ 	alexis.moinet@umons.ac.be

Onur Babacan  		 	
	http://www.tcts.fpms.ac.be/~babacan/     alexis.moinet@umons.ac.be
	
Nicolas	d'Alessandro	
	http://www.nicolasdalessandro.net/		nicolas@dalessandro.be
	
Thierry Dutoit			
	http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/~dutoit/			thierry.dutoit@umons.ac.be 

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