## Date: August 8, 1998 ## ## The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary [cmudict.0.6] is Copyright 1998 ## by Carnegie Mellon University. Use of this dictionary, for any research or ## commercial purpose, is completely unrestricted. If you make use of or ## redistribute this material, we would appreciate acknowlegement of its ## origin. ## ## cmudict.0.6 is the fifth release of cmudict, first released as cmudict.0.1 ## in September of 1993. There was no generally available public release ## of version 0.5. ## ## See the README in this directory before you use this dictionary. ## ## Thanks to Bill Huggins at BBN; Bill Fisher at NIST; Alex Hauptman, ## Alex Rudnicky, Jack Mostow, Roni Rosenfeld, Richard Stern, ## Matthew Siegler, Kevin Lenzo, Maxine Eskenazi, Mosur Ravishankar, ## Eric Thayer, Kristie Seymore, and Raj Reddy at CMU; Lin Chase at ## LIMSI; Doug Paul at MIT Lincoln Labs; Ben Serridge at MIT SLS; Murray ## Spiegel at Bellcore; Tony Robinson at Cambridge UK; David Bowness of ## CAE Electronics Ltd. and CRIM; Stephen Hocking; Jerry Quinn at BNR ## Canada, and Marshal Midden for bringing to our attention problems and ## inadequacies with the first releases. Most special thanks to Bob Weide ## for all his work on prior versions of the dictionary. ## ## We welcome input from users and will continue to acknowledge such input ## in subsequent releases. If I failed to acknowledge your input in this ## release, please remind me and I will update these comments. If I failed to ## fix things that you brought to my attention, please remind me and have ## patience. If I actually fixed things that you brought to my attention and ## you appreciate it, I wouldn't mind a pat on the back. ## ## This version differs from previous releases of cmudict most significantly ## in the addition of new words from the common ARPA tasks for 1996 and 1997. ## ## There are undoubtedly still errors and inconsistencies in this dictionary ## so keep your eyes open for problems and mail them to me. ## ## We hope this dictionary is an improvement over cmudict.0.4. ## ## email: cmudict@cs.cmu.edu ## web: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict ## ftp: ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/speech/dict/ ## ## Thank you for your continued interest in the CMU Pronouncing ## Dictionary. Further addictions and improvements are planned ## for forthcoming releases. ##