Subject: ASSTA EB No. 129 - HTK is now free! (fwd) From: flatmax <flatmax(at)CSE.UNSW.EDU.AU> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:59:53 +1100FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:13:03 +1000 Subject: ASSTA EB No. 129 - HTK is now free! This is worth looking at! Harvey *********************************************************************** * ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA * * * * AUSTRALIAN SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED * * * * ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA *** ASSTA * *********************************************************************** ASSTA ELECTRONIC MAIL BULLETIN NUMBER 129 5 October 2000 Hidden Markov Toolkit (HTK) is now free! Praat speech analysis, synthesis software ASR developers and researchers may be interested to know that the HTK software (formerly from Entropic now owned by Microsoft) can be downloaded for *free* from the HTK respository at Cambridge, UK: http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/ The current version 3.0.0 is functionally equivalent to the last release from Entropic. And while I'm at it, you may also be interested in the following free software called Praat which is a self-contained binary and environment (easy to install and use) for speech analysis, synthesis and more: http://www.praat.org Enjoy! -- Dr. Roberto Togneri _--_|\ Office: 4.20, E&EE bldg Spoken Language Systems Research / \ Voice: +61-8-9380-2535 CIIPS, Dept. of E&E Engineering *_.--._/ Fax: +61-8-9380-1065 The University of Western Australia v Email: roberto(at)ee.uwa.edu.au NEDLANDS WA 6907 Australia http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto ============================================================================ ASSTA's contact coordinates are: E-mail : assta(at)cslab.anu.edu.au Postal : ASSTA Inc., GPO Box 143, Canberra City, ACT, 2601 ============================================================================ THE END - ASSTA ELECTRONIC BULLETIN No. 129 - 5th October 2000