The purpose of the project is making a good freely redistributable and usable
Czech diphone database for the Festival speech synthesis system. Together with
the festival-czech project it provides a complete freely redistributable and
usable Czech speech synthesis.

Although the database is intended primarily for the Festival speech synthesis
system, it is not limited to Festival. The database contains complete phone
boundary marks and diphone boundaries and can be used to make voices for other
free speech synthesis systems.

Czech Festival speech synthesis is developed by Brailcom, o.p.s. Nadační fond
Českého rozhlasu, Seznam.cz, a.s. and European Commission (the Leonardo da
Vinci program) provided financial contributions to the project. Institute of
Phonetics at Faculty of Philosophy & Arts, Charles University, Prague, led by
prof. PhDr. Zdena Palková, CSc. provided expert knowledge and consultations.

Authors:
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Milan Zamazal