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--from the release notes for The Festival Speech Synthesis System version 1.4.2 and Edinburgh Speech Tools Library version 1.2.2
With this release we wish to remember Dr Mike W Macon of OGI who passed away in March 2001. Mike was one of the first non-Edinburgh people to take on Festival and make substantial improvements. His diphone voice and LPC code (mwm_diphone/OGIresLPC) is one of the best diphone voices in the system. We worked closely him and enjoyed and number of joint visits, and we acknowledge his help with the whole system. However his code and his voice will continue to speak to us.
Alan W Black (CMU) and Rob Clark (Edinburgh)
25th July 2001