Improved spelling of wide/narrow e/ē, o,ō and uo.
Improved intonation of syllables.
More unstressed words are added.

New vowel definitions, fixes in rules and voice intonation.

Adjustments of vowels and consonants.

New phonemes defined for more fluent accent.

espeakedit --compile  also compiles the intonation data

Added feature to produce phonemes as International Phonetic Alphabet.
phoneme definitions: Added "ipa" instruction to specify IPA phoneme name.

When spelling as individual characters, calculate the stress position for each character name.


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New format for phoneme source files.
Update phoneme data for Klatt synthesizer.


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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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Windows SAPI5 installer: Remove the limit on the number of voices specified for inclusion in the Windows Registry.

voices.cpp:  Widen formant peaks F3 F4 F5.

Reduce slightly the difference in amplitude between stressed and unstressed vowels.


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Added languages: ca (Catalan) lv (Latvian)
Numbers: allow for languages which have numbers for 100,000 and (or not) 10,000,000 (eg. hi, sw)
Phoneme [ts] new files in phsource/ustop
*_rules: fix crash for lettergroups numbers greater than 10, and better error reporting.
Languages: eo, jbo: adjust syllable lengths.
Language: en, fix "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th".  But a full ordinal number feature is still needed.


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Return espeakEVENT_MARK events in AUDIO_OUTPUT_PLAYBACK mode.
New phoneme [ _;_ ]  a pause which ends intonation for a clause (the equivalent of a comma).
lang=en-r: adjusted phonemes


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Add stress_rule=4, altepenultimate stress.
Change license to GPL version 3.


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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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Add lang=is Icelandic.
Adopt Phoneme [R] from experimental Croatian [R2].
lang=hu, add vowel_pause.


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lang=cs  r-caron quieter after p,t,k,v
lang=it,es,sk  changed 'r' to use phoneme [R]


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Adjust phoneme [R].
Lang=ru  Revert to phonemes [S] and [Z] instead of [s.] and [z.].
Lang=ru  Remove rule to give 1st syllable a secondary stress if the second syllable has a primary stress.


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