It is possible -- especially at higher speeds -- for the n at the
end of a word to be velarised if the next word starts with a velar
plosive. I prefer the velarised sound between word boundaries, but
others do not. As such, limit the velarisation to within the word
only.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology
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.
The 'dontlist' feature was used by the now removed PrintPhonemesUsed
function to not display that phoneme in the list. It was also only
used by the English phonemetable.
Command-line: added options --sep --tie.
API, changed the meaning of the "phonememode" parameter in espeak_SetPhonemeTrace() and espeak_TextToPhonemes().
Language changes to: en, eu, pt.
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Fix bug in 1.48.08, mispronouncing English words when using a voice with a non-Alatin alphabet (eg. Tamil).
Language changes: en, fa, pt, ta
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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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Added rule attribute $noprefix for *_rules files. The rule is not used if a prefix has been removed from the word.
Language changes: en, or, pt, ta.
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Language changes:
an, en, es, fa, gu, it, pt, ta, te.
Voice files: added attribute 'dictdialect', eg:
dictdialect en-us
uses the US English voice to speak words or rules which are marked with _^_EN
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The i phoneme is used for the reduced i sound in e.g. happy
(/h'api/). Thus, the following words contrast:
word eSpeak IPA
happy /h'api/ /hˈapi/
been /b'i:n/ /bˈiːn/
bin /b'In/ /bˈɪn/
Before this change, /h'api/ would be transcribed in IPA as /hˈapɪ/
which is wrong. After this change, it is transcribed correctly.
lang=zh: Fix: was speaking Chinese character names as character codes.
lang=hr, sr: Fix: speak Cyrillic character names in the local langauge.
Phoneme definitions: add new statement type "LengthAdd <signed number>".
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Command line option --ipa can have option to include Tie or ZWJ characters to disabmiguate multi-letter phoneme names.
Recognize and ignore UTF8-BOM byte sequence at the start of phoneme definition files.
Languages changes: ta, nl, pt.
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Improve error detection in *_list files.
Lang=hu, remove feature to unstress the second of two capitalized words at end of clause.
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Fixed crash on re-initializing libespeak.
lang=hu, experimental, if the last two words of a clause (before punctuation) both have capital letters, then make the last word unstressed. This is useful for people names, but may be wrong for other cases.
lang=en-us, distinguish phonemes [aI@] and [aI3] (compare "diet", "tired").
lang=de, fix automatic devoicing of word-final 'b', 'd', 'g'.
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Don't omit <marker> event for words which are recognized as pairs (such as "of the").
Lang=Spanish, fix missing "y" in numbers such as "21".
Lang=EN-US, Don't add 'intrusive r' between phoneme [i@] and a following vowel.
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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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Reece H. Dunn