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       The HMM-Based Singing Voice Synthesis System "Sinsy" version 0.91
                           release December 25, 2014


The Sinsy is an HMM-Based Singing Voice Synthesis System. It has been being
developed by Sinsy working group (see "Who we are" below) and some graduate
students in Nagoya Institute of Technology (see "AUTHORS" in the same
directory).

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The Sinsy is released under the Modified BSD license (see
http://www.opensource.org/). Using and distributing this software is free
(without restriction including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of this
work, and to permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so) subject to
the conditions in the following license:

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/*           The HMM-Based Singing Voice Synthesis System "Sinsy"    */
/*           developed by Sinsy Working Group                        */
/*           http://sinsy.sourceforge.net/                           */
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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
can, but are not in a position to guarantee it. We will consider consultancy if
desired, please contacts us for details.

If you are using the Sinsy in commercial environments, even though no license
is required, we would be grateful if you let us know as it helps justify
ourselves to our various sponsors. We also strongly encourage you to

 * refer to the use of Sinsy in any publications that use this software
 * report bugs, where possible with bug fixes, that are found

See also "COPYING" file in the current directory for details.

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

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                               Acknowledgements
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Keiichi Tokuda
Yoshihiko Nankaku
Keiichiro Oura
Kazuhiro Nakamura
Shinji Sako

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                                  Who we are
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The Sinsy working group is a voluntary group for developing the HMM-Based
Singing Voice Synthesis System. Current members are

 Keiichi Tokuda      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~tokuda/
 (Produce and Design)
 Keiichiro Oura      http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~uratec/
 (Design and Development)
 Kazuhiro Nakamura   http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~nkazu/
 (Development and Main Maintainer)
 Yoshihiko Nankaku   http://www.sp.nitech.ac.jp/~nankaku/

and the members are dynamically changing. The current formal contact address of
Sinsy working group and a mailing list for Sinsy users can be found at
http://sinsy.sourceforge.net/
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