The initial development of flite was primarily done by awb whiletravelling, perhaps the name is doubly appropriate as a substantialamount of the coding was done over 30,000ft).  During most of thattime awb was funded by the Language Technonologies Institute atCarnegie Mellon University. Kevin A. Lenzo was involved in the design, conversion techniques andrepresentions for the voice distributed with flite (as well as beingthe actual kal voice itself). Other contributions are: Henry Spencer   For the regex codeUniversity of Edinburgh   for releasing Festival for free, making a companion runtime synthesizer   a practical project, much of the design of flite relies on the    architecture decisions made in the Festival Speech Synthesis Systems and   the Edinburgh Speech Tools.   The duration cart tree and intonation (accent and F0) models were   derived from the models in the Festival distribution. which in turn   were trained from the Boston University FM Radio Data Corpus.Carnegie Mellon University   The included lexicon is derived from CMULEX and the letter to sound   rules are constructed using the Lenzo and Black techniques for   building LTS decision graphs.Nagoya Institute of Technology   The mlsa code derives from HTS (following a long chain)Tomoki Toda   The mlsa and mlpg support came view Tomoki's support for voice convertion   in FestVox which in turn (some of which) comes from NITECH's HTS.Marcela Charfuelan (DFKI)   For the mixed-excitation techniques.  These originally came from NITECH   but we understood the technqiues from Marcela's Open Mary Java code and   implemented them in our optimized version of MLSA.David Huggins-Daines (dhd@cepstral.com)    much of the clunits code, porting to multiple platforms, substantial   code tidy up and configure/autoconf guidance.Cepstral, LLC (http://cepstral.com)   For supporting DHD to spend time (in 2001) on flite and passing   back the important early fixes and enhancements including SAPI   support (funded by Portuguese FCT to produce an open source   synthesis solution).Willie Walker <william.walker@sun.com> and the rest of the Sun Speech Group   lots of low level bugs (and fixes).Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Praxis XXI program   The SAPI interface provided by Cepstral, LLC was partially funded by   the above program.Craig Reese: IDA/Supercomputing Research CenterJoe Campbell: Department of Defense   who wrote the ulaw conversion routines in src/speech/cst_wave_utils.cMario Lang:   causing the support of shared libraries to happenEric House (fixin@peak.org)   who provided examples of how to do 68K Call Backs for system functionsGreg Parker gparker@sealiesoftware.com   peal, the binding glue and shared library foo for getting the arm    version doing something reasonable under PalmOSLukas Loehrer <loehrerl@gmx.net> Feb 2006   alsa support (default if available)Udhyakumar N   For making the mixed excitation code work, and show its valueBrian Langner   redid the Visual Studio supportAlok Parlikar   Android support, and cg voice dumping (and loading), indic supportGopala Anumanchipalli   spamf0 support, unitran integrationRichard Sproat and Kyoung-young Kim (UIUC)   Unitran: unicode to sampa grapheme mapping tablesSun Microsystems   g72x codeLarry McCourry   Windows Visual Student support for 2.0.0Cobalt Speech and Language Inc   Updates to Visual Studio Support and Support for Clustergen Voices under SAPISuresh Bazaj and Shyam Krishna   Indian Language support