This is a step in the transition to using a common IPA-based
phoneme table for the pronunciations. It allows the base phonemes
to import the IPA versions during this transition phase.
Italian Phonemes: Improved length for stressed vowels
Italian Phonemes: added Statements for phoneme z and phoneme v
Italian Dictionaries: added rules for pronominal verbs and Exceptions for subjunctive
Italian Dictionaries: added rule for tz pronunciation
Italian Dictionaries: fixed group e grave
italian Dictionaries: removed greek letters group from it_rules
Italian Numbers reading: Improved stress for the reading of hundreds in it_list
Intonation: improved tune s4, q4, e4 used in italian intonation
Removed lengthen penultimate stressed vowels from dictionary.c lines 1469-1475. (See #80).
Fixed length stressed vowels in tr_language.c (see #80).
Improved phonemes, new statements for [a] and long close [o].
Added last improvements in italian dict source tested on april-may 2016.
Updated eSpeak makefile to inherit compiler options.
Language Greek (el): recognize polytonic spelling.
Language changes: en, gu, it, pt, ta, ur.
Language phoneme changes: de [r], hi [a:] [r].
Added phoneme table for Arabic.
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Language changes to: an, en, gu, it, pt, ta.
Superscripts and subscripts are spoken as single letters and numbers during njormal speech, and with "superscript" and "subscript" spoken when spelling.
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Add --version command-line option.
Allow hexadecimal numbers for UTF-8 bytes in rules in *_rules files.
wave_pulse.cpp, ensure wave_close is not called again while waiting.
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Phoneme definitions.
New keyword "prevoice", always add murmer before a voiced stop, not only after a vowel.
Fixed bug in nextVowel() condition.
Fixed bug is condition "isRhotic".
Command line options.
On Windows, -- means don't treat following arguments as options.
--help output now should the espeak-data path.
Tools->Lexicon. Redesign Lexicon processing for Russian and Bulgarian.
Numbers. Fixes for Hungarian ordinal numbers.
Fixed bug where double .. was ignored.
Fixed bug in reporting word event lengths in callbacks.
Fixed bug in reporting marker event positions in callbacks, when non-ascii text.
SSML.
Allow single as well as double quotes around strings.
Fix bugs in SSML "prosody rate".
Speed.
Only use Sonic speedups greater than x2.
Use custom eSpeak speed settings when Sonic speedup is used.
Mbrola. Look for Mbrola voice also at /usr/share/mbrola/xx/xx
espeakedit. Try "aplay" and then "play" to play sound.
Languages:
Kannada (kn) now in official release.
Esperanto (eo) change prosody.
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Languages which use non-Latin alphabets will automatically speak a word of Latin characters as English (or another specified language) without the need for entries in its *_rules file.
synthesize.cpp, SynthOnTimer(): Ensure the sound channel is open if there items still to be spoken, to prevent sound output lock-up.
Reduce warning messages from compilers.
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*_list files: add attribute $max3 to limit repetitions of a symbol to 3.
-v command option, if the voice-name is not found, lookup using it as a language name.
Windows: allow longer path names for espeak-data.
-m option: Ignore text within <script> and <style> tags.
Reduce default pitch to 80-117.
WavegenCloseSound() check if there remain items to be spoken and re-open the sound channel.
Reduce voicing before voiced plosives.
Corrections to mbrola translation for lang=hi.
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[1.26.06] Fixed check for dot in abbreviations, for multibyte characters.
Defined a Revision number macro in speak_lib.h for interface changes.
Changes to formant rate smoothing so that it's proportional to frequency.
Add phoneme translations for mbrola "it3" "it4" Italian voices.
Added rule in *_rules files for "word starts with capital letter".
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[1.26.05] Fix count of upper-case letters in a word to consider multibyte characters.
Mbrola translations, option to not match across a word boundary.
Mbrola translations, allow check of lengthen indicator [:].
espeakedit, add operation to apply a voice's formants modifications to a keyframe.
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[1.26.04] lang=pl, fixed bug where "nie" duplicated the next word.
Added attributes in voice file: voicing, breath, breathw.
Added "en-wisper" voice.
espeakedit, fixed crash when playing sounds using a voice file with a high pitch.
lang=it, use phoneme [u], not [U]
Added directory docs to svn.
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