Say dictionaries...

Say uses the following two dictionaries:
american
The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary [cmudict.0.1] is Copyright 1993 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.

ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/fgdata/dict; You can query it.
Say... uses cmudict.0.3.Z

british
"beep". This is a direct desendant of CUVOLAD (british pronounciation) (as used by previous releases of rsynth), and so has a more restrictive copyright than CMU dictionary.

ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/comp.speech/data
Say... uses beep-0.5.tar.gz


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