Speak accented letter names as base-letter name plus accent name, using a table of Unicode characters up to U+17F.
Added $accent attribute for *_list files, meaning "speak as base-letter name plus accent name".
Added accent names to several languages *_list files.
Added language option to allow vowels to merge between words (used for lang=TA).
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Error message if accented letters are not recognized as alphabetic.
"speak" program. Don't finish when an empty sentence is found.
Compile dictionary: compile *_listx after *_list, not before.
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Fix an error where vowels start too loud (too strong attack).
Added command-line option --compile-debug, which is like --compile but it includes source line information from the *_rules file, which is displayed with the -X option.
espeakedit: Added Compile->Compile_dictionary(debug),
Fixed <emphasis> which was broken in the previous version(s).
<emphasis> now reduces the previous stressed syllable to secondary stress.
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[1.29.26] Allow longer echo delay period at the end of speech if the echo strength is > 20.
lang=vi: recognise combining accent characters (for tone accents).
Use a different intonation pattern, with more expression, for sentences which end in exclamation mark.
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Moved Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian dictionary source data to hbs_rules, hbs_list.
Added data for Ancient Greek voice ("grc").
In voice files, the attribute: word n adds a short pause between words. n = 1 to 4 for increasing pause length.
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[1.29.06] Adjust some vowels in en-sc, en-r, en-rp, en-wm
Windows: Fix problem with mbrola voices stopping in Jaws screenreader.
--compile. Don't read and report faults in previous *-dict file.
Added phoneme translation for German mbrola "de6" voice.
Fix to phoneme translation for German voices.
lang=zhy. Assume word boundary between an ideagraph and an English word.
lang=pt. Update pt_rules
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[1.27.10] Added inverse conditional rules in *_list and *_rules. eg. ?!3 "if rule 3 is NOT set".
lang=en-r, adjusted vowels.
Moved single characters (eg. % @) from *_list to *_rules so they can be used in combinations (eg. %-).
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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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[1.26.02] SelectVoice(), make voice_variants[] static.
lang=de many translation improvements.
TranslateWord(), check that a prefix rule is still allowed after a suffix has been removed.
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[1.24.12] Produce dictsource/dict_phonemes, a list of which phonemes are used by each language's *_rules and *_list files.
Fix crash with -X option when spelling words (acronyms).
Rules files: added special character X meaning "no vowel until the word boundary". Used for lang=no.
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Don't read all the voice files on start, wait until they are needed.
Added 'W' code to _rules files to mean: further letters follow while spelling a word.
Lang=fr replace [r] with [R], shorten [R] slightly
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