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Gerasimos Xydas
gxydas@di.uoa.gr
Last updated:
3 May 2004

PLEASE READ FIRST THE LICENSE AGREEMENT BELOW.


1. LICENSE FOR "DEMOSTHeNES"
2. LICENSE FOR THE MBROLA VOICE GR2
3. LICENSE FOR THE MBROLA SYNTHESIZER

1. LICENSE FOR "DEMOSTHeNES"



The software application "DEMOSTHeNES" is being provided to "You", the licensee, by Gerasimos Xydas and Georgios Kouroupetroglou (University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications), the "authors", under the following license, which applies to any program, software application or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this license. The "program", below, refers to any such program, software application or work.

By obtaining, using and/or copying this program, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions:

Terms and conditions for the distribution and the use of "DEMOSTHeNES"

"DEMOSTHeNES" may not be sold or incorporated into any product, which is sold without prior permission from the authors.

Permission is granted to use "DEMOSTHeNES" for non-commercial, non-military purposes, with and only with the voice and language databases made available by the authors from the "DEMOSTHeNES" www homepage:

http://www.di.uoa.gr/speech/synthesis/demosthenes

In return, the authors asks you to mention the publication:

Gerasimos Xydas and Georgios Kouroupetroglou: The DEMOSTHeNES Speech Composer, in Proceedings of the 4th ISCA Tutorial and Workshop on Speech Synthesis, SSW4, Perthshire, Scotland, September 2001, pp. 167-172

in any scientific publication referring to work for which this program has been used.

When no charge is made, "DEMOSTHeNES" may be copied and distributed freely, provided that this notice is copied and distributed with it.

If you wish to incorporate "DEMOSTHeNES" into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the authors to ask for permission.

Disclaimer

THIS SOFTWARE CARRIES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. THE USER ASSUMES ALL RISKS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, WHICH INVOLVE THIS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY. IN PARTICULAR, THE AUTHORS DO NOT TAKE ANY COMMITMENT IN VIEW OF ANY POSSIBLE THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

2. LICENSE FOR THE MBROLA VOICE GR2



This mbrola database is being provided to you, the licensee,by the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, the licensor and owner of the database. The original diphone database, from which this mbrola database has been built, is owned and copyrighted by Gerasimos Xydas and Dr Georgios Kouroupetroglou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

By obtaining, using and/or copying this database, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms andconditions:

Terms and conditions on the use of GR2

Permission is granted to use this database for synthesizing speech with and only with the Mbrola program made available from the MBROLA project www homepage:
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis

Terms and conditions for the distribution of GR2

The distribution of this database is submitted to the same terms and conditions as the distribution of the Mbrola program. In addition, this database may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is sold without prior permission from the Diphone Database Owner (koupe@di.uoa.gr and gxydas@di.uoa.gr). When no charge is made, this database may be copied and distributed freely, provided that this notice is copied and distributed with it.

Disclaimer

THIS DATABASE CARRIES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. THE USER ASSUMES ALL RISKS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, WHICH INVOLVE THIS DATABASE IN ANY WAY. IN PARTICULAR, THE LICENSOR OF THE DATABASE DOES NOT TAKE ANY COMMITMENT IN VIEW OF ANY POSSIBLE THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

3. LICENSE FOR THE MBROLA SYNTHESIZER


MBROLA Tools Version 3.11

License

This program and object code is being provided to "you", the licensee, by Alain Ruelle, the "author", under the following license, which applies to any program, object code or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this license. The "program", below, refers to any such program, object code or work.

By obtaining, using and/or copying this program, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions:

Terms and conditions for the distribution of the program

This program may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is sold without prior permission from the author.

When no charge is made, this program may be copied and distributed freely, provided that this notice is copied and distributed with it. Each time you redistribute the program (or any work based on the program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy or distribute the program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License.

If you wish to incorporate the program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission.

If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this license, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this license. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this license and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this license would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the program.

Terms and conditions on the use of the program

Permission is granted to use this software for non-commercial, non-military purposes, with and only with the voice and language databases made available by the author from the MBROLA project www homepage:
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis

In return, the author asks you to mention the MBROLA reference paper:

T. DUTOIT, V. PAGEL, N. PIERRET, F. BATAILLE, O. VAN DER VRECKEN "The MBROLA Project: Towards a Set of High-Quality Speech Synthesizers Free of Use for Non-Commercial Purposes" Proc. ICSLP'96, Philadelphia, vol. 3, pp. 1393-1396.

or, for a more general reference to Text-To-Speech synthesis, the book:

An Introduction to Text-To-Speech Synthesis, T. DUTOIT, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7 April 1997, 312 pp.

in any scientific publication refering to work for which this program has been used.

Disclaimer

THIS SOFTWARE CARRIES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. THE USER ASSUMES ALL RISKS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, WHICH INVOLVE THIS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY. IN PARTICULAR, THE AUTHOR DOES NOT TAKE ANY COMMITMENT IN VIEW OF ANY POSSIBLE THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

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