Don't speak punctuation names faster at high speeds.
lang=ml, recognise "virama + U+200d" (zero-width joiner) to indicte 'chillu' characters.
Fix problem of punctuation character announcement repeated at the start of the next sentence after speaking is stopped.
Fixed crash due to large numbers of box-drawing characters in text input.
Fixed phoneme translation of 't' sounds for US-English voices.
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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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Phoneme definitions. Add "equivalents" table to translate phonemes from a foreign language (eg. English) into the equivalant phonemes of this language. This is used when *_rules and *_list files indicate that a word uses pronunciation rules from a different language.
Unpronouncable words can be recognised by rules in *_rule files. This feature is now used for en, de, es.
Lang=ta, hi. Letter-names for combining vowel characters are distinguished from stand-alone vowel characters by a preceding beep.
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Indicate language changes in IPA phoneme output.
Phoneme definitions FMT(), second parameter is amplitude percentage.
Phoneme definitions CALL(), If phoneme type is not defined, copy the static attributes from the called phoneme.
Unpronouncable word check: stop when an apostrophe is reached.
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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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Fix: Speak punctuation option also caused text after [[ to be spoken as phoneme codes even if espeakPHONEMES flag is not set.
Speak sequences of letters and dots as individual letters, and don't speak 'dot', eg. "u.s.a."
Don't announce punctuation in the alternative text inside <audio ... </audio>
Vowelcharts, show the positions of multiple FMT() in vowel phonemes definitions.
Phoneme definitions:
New attributes: flag1, flag2, flag3
New attribute: nopause. Prevents the insertion of a short pause when this phoneme starts a word which follows a vowel.
New conditions: isFlag1, isFlag2, isFlag3, isSibilant.
New statement: InsertPhoneme()
Phonemes: improve syllablic [m-] [n-] [N-]
*_rules: add attributes $p_alt .. $p_alt3, $w_alt .. $w_alt3
*_list: add attributes: $sentence, $atstart
klatt synthesizer: implement echo.
espeakedit, Prosody display: Indicate stressed and secondary-stress syllables.
espeakedit: remember window size and position.
Intonation:
New file, 'phsource/intonation' to define 'tunes' which can be used from voice files.
espeakedit: add Compile -> Intonationm data
Speed: Increase range to 80 to 450, with default=175.
Improve speaking at high speeds.
lang=en: Reduce consecutive unstressed syllables to 'diminished' stress, only in unstressed words.
lang=de: Change 'r' phoneme.
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*_list files: added attribute $sentence.
*_rules files: added attributes $w_alt, $p_alt.
phoneme definitions: added attribute no_pause.
-X command-line option: Show the matching of multiple-word entries in *_list files.
espeakedit: Add menu option to compile the intonation data file (the data is not yet used).
Start language: Bulgarian.
lang=bg (Bulgarian): Add feature in espeakedit to make bg_listx from a lexicon of words which have stress position mark-up.
espeakedit: Change the frame-length field from Spin Control to Text Control to allow better access from screen-readers.
Language options: add an option to the Regressive Voicing option to de-voice the final consonant of words.
Don't speak "dot" if an ellipsis is followed by a dot.
Intonation: change the internal pitch unit to give finer control, and align with the values displayed in the espeakedit Prosody window.
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Fix crash when embedded control codes are followed by numbers of 5 or more digits.
Fix lang=hu, First character of an abbreviation is missed after an ordinal number (eg."2. cd")
Fix XML tag not recognized after "..." when announce punctuation is enabled.
Fix lang=zh-yue, 'p' 't' 'k' after a vowel give a long pause.
Fix lang=ru, "o" missing in unstressed syllables.
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Language improvements include Danish rules.
Fixed phoneme [n^] for Klatt synthesizer, was producing noise burst.
espeakedit: Display error details after Compile Dictionary.
espeakedit: Fix: After speaking a word which changes language, Compile
Dictionary may compile the wrong dictionary.
Don't consider multiple spaces as thousands separator (eg. 2 000 )
Lang=Hungarian, don't allow dot as thousands separator.
Lang-Hungarian, Fix suffixes -a, -e, -az, -ez, -azt, -ezt after numbers.
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Don't recognize space as a thousands separator if it's tab, newline, or multiple spaces.
Don't recognuze space as a thousands separator if not followed by exactly 3 digits.
Unrecognized HTML tags should not add a space (eg. <font> <b> inside a word).
lang=hu: fixes for when numbers are ordinal.
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*_list: Changed name to $combine (from $alt2) for the attribute which indicates that a word should combine with the next word.
Voices files: Added attribute "speed", which specified a percentage change to the speaking speeds which are used for this voice.
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Fix: -g command option not working on Windows.
Fix: Text position value in events was limited to 16 bits.
[1.40.15]
espeakedit: Change formant dialog to include Klatt parameters.
espeakedit: Change the format of formant data to include Klatt parameters.
espeakedit: Fix the frequency of F7,F8 at 7800Hz,9000Hz.
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lang=it, added dictsource/it_listx with corrections for stress position and open/close vowel type.
Changes to allow compilation on WinCE (Windows Mobile), with notes in platforms/windowsMobile.
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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 experimental Klatt synthesizer.
Klatt phonemes use a new format of phoneme data.
espeakedit, new dialog fields and layout for Klatt phonemes.
Added Klatt versions of English phonemes.
Fixed some compilation warnings on Windows.
Fixed bug in Lettergroups > L10
Increased amplitude of harmonics below F1 peak, to increase bass.
Allow 5 (up from 4) pairs of values in "tone" command in voice files.
Default to slightly wider pk_shape1.
If words are separated by hyphens, don't add word-gap, and don't pass new-word flag onto phoneme processing.
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Fix problem in *_rules files. Conditional rules could cause corrupt phoneme strings.
Voice files, "replace" command using an "unstressed" phoneme now ensures the syllable is unstressed.
lang: us, pronunciation changes, use new phonemeeeeeeeee [@/] (at end of words) and [O].
lang: fr, pronunciation changes.
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Fix SSML <prosody rate> to allow the maximum rate of 390 wpm.
Fixes to the generation of the dict_phonemes report.
Lang=en-n adjust vowel sounds.
Compile phonemes: automatically assume vowel-break marker in second keyframe of a vowel file if none is set.
Set letter group 'A' to "vowel letters only" for Indic alphabets.
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Reduce pause when announcing punctuation.
Fix crash for list of numbers in some languages, eg: "22,23,24,25,26,27..."
Recognise XLL (etc) is not a valid Roman number.
espeak_Cancel(), reset punctuation echo.
Don't permanently change option_phoneme_input after using [[ ]] internally.
lang=af: Only recognise word "'n" as [@] when followed by a space.
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Lang: en-us pronunciation rule changes, adjust some phonemes.
Lang: pl, fr phoneme adjustments.
espeakedit: Fix generation of file "dict_phonemes" (.replace could cause phonemes to be missed).
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Fix crash with SSML <say-as>.
Sada audio output now OK on big-endian processors.
Don't reduce the pause before doubles stop consonants (eg.Finnish "kk") as much at high speeds.
Language changes: pl (reduce length of stressed syllables, [i] closer, [f] stronger befiore [s]).
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intonation: changed comma intonation for intonation type 2.
intonation: adjusted exclamation (make the nuclear syllable emphasized).
intonation: split intonation table into body and nucleus parts.
lang-zh: only length tones 2,3 at end of sentence.
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<say-as tts:char>, if a character name is not defined, say its English name.
phoneme tables, added beforenotvowel2 attribure for lang=tr
lang=tr: initial draft
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lang=en-r: change to phoneme [t#] (reduced "t")
Added "consonants" attribute to voice files.
Minor change to intonation types 2 and 3.
lang=zh: adjust tone levels
lang=fr: adjust stressAmp, adjust consonant strengths.
Platform RISC_OS. Disable the "breath" attribute in voices because floating point is not allowed in callbacks.
Platform RISC_OS. Implement ListVoices()
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