Added a CHANGELOG.md file.

CHANGELOG.md

+# Change Log
+
+## (In Development)
+
+*  Support the `--compile-mbrola` command-line option.
+*  Support the `--compile-phonemes` command-line option.
+*  Support the `--compile-intonations` command-line option.
+*  Support SSML <phoneme alphabet="espeak" ph="..."> tags.
+*  Use -fPIC to support sparc/sparc64 architectures.
+*  Use the system's portaudio header files.
+*  Use the system's sonic library and header files.
+*  Added man files for the `speak-ng` and `espeak-ng` command-line programs.
+*  Output phoneme compilation errors to stderr.
+*  Generate build failures if building phoneme, intonation or dictionary files
+   contain errors.
+
+restructuring:
+
+*  Build the code with a C11 compiler, instead of a C++ compiler.
+*  Moved the library code to `src/libespeak-ng`.
+*  Renamed `espeak` to `espeak-ng`.
+*  Renamed `speak` to `speak-ng`.
+*  Moved the code to build the mbrola voice data, phoneme tables and intonation
+   data to libespeak-ng.
+*  Removed the `espeakedit` program and the associated wxWidgets dependency.
+*  Removed the platforms directory.
+*  Converted the documentation to markdown.
+
+cleanup:
+
+*  Removed unused/empty internal header files.
+*  Removed unused and commented out code.
+*  Reformatted the code to use a consistent style and indentation.
+*  Fixed many GCC and clang warnings.
+
+updated languages:
+
+*  fr (French) -- Thomas Guillory
+*  ga (Irish Gaelic) -- Jim Regan
+*  it (Italian) -- ChrisLeo
+*  lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
+
+new languages:
+
+*  mb-br2 (Brazillian Portuguese)
+*  mb-lt1 (Lithuanian) -- embar
+*  mb-lt2 (Lithuanian) -- embar
+*  mt (Maltese)
+*  tn (Setswana)
+*  tt (Tatar)
+
+## Historic
+
+These are a condensed set of releases that were maintained in step with the
+upstream eSpeak releases. The releases containing minor build fixes, or only
+incorporating upstream changes have been ommitted.
+
+### 1.48.11 - 2014-08-31
+
+*  Support building the MBROLA voice files.
+*  mbrola/de6 support for syllabic m and syllabic n.
+
+### 1.47.14 - 2013-12-03
+
+*  Support building with the extended Chinese and Russian dictionary data.
+
+### 1.47.13 - 2013-10-22
+
+updated languages:
+
+*  om (Oromo)
+
+### 1.47.12 - 2013-10-12
+
+*  Added the NVDA voice variants.
+*  Do not crash if `espeak_SetPunctuationList` is called with a NULL
+   punctuation list.
+*  Fix a segfault in `GetTranslatedPhonemeString`.
+
+new languages:
+
+*  om (Oromo)
+
+build:
+
+*  Support the `--with-async` configure option.
+*  Support the `--with-sonic` configure option.
+*  Support the `--with-mbrola` configure option.
+*  Support the `--with-klatt` configure option.
+*  Support the `--with-sada` configure option.
+*  More build improvements.
+
+### 1.46.23 - 2012-09-11
+
+*  Converted the build to use autotools.
+
+### 1.46.11 - 2011-12-31
+
+*  Support building all the voice dictionaries.
+*  More build improvements.
+
+### 1.43.46 - 2010-06-28
+
+*  Initial build changes to make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.

README.md

 which sounds robotic, but can be configured to use Klatt formant synthesis or
 MBROLA to give it a more natural sound.
 
+See the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for a description of the changes in the
+various releases and with the eSpeak project.
+
 ## Build Dependencies
 
 In order to build eSpeak NG, you need:

autogen.sh

 
 mkdir -p m4
 touch AUTHORS
-touch NEWS
+ln -sf CHANGELOG.md NEWS
 ln -sf README.md README
 
 aclocal -I m4 || exit 1