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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*_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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Allow combining accent characters inside a word (don't cause the word to be spelled).
Add command line options: --path --phonout
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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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*_list files, allow words in all-capitals which imply $allcaps attribute.
Voices: Look for voices also in espeak-data/voices/test.
lang=eo: Adjust syllable lengths. Use break between word (word_gap=1).
wave.cpp: Fixes to copyBuffer(), wave_write().
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*_list Allow Hyphens in multi-word entries (aa-bb). This will only match a pair of words which are hyphenated.
*_list Fix abbreviations of the form a.b.cde
Recognise Armenian punctuation, allow and process Armenian punctuation inside words (affects intonation type, and marks the focus word of the clause).
Mbrola: add a delay so that SAPI5 events better follow the speaking.
Mbrola: generate phoneme events, and hence SAPI5 viseme events.
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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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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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Fix: Events callback, fix word length information for words with multibyte characters.
Fix: Re-translating a word in a different language after the first langauge has started speaking individual letters, gave silence.
Announce punctuation. If character name is not defined, use English.
Announce punctuation. Fix pitch of the voice which announces punctuation characters.
[[Phonemes]] text input. Allow the language-switch phoneme eg. [[_^_EN hEloU _^_FR]] in the input.
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Indicate unrecognized letters within a word by clicks.
lang-tr: Non-standard lower case conversion for "I".
Tone languages: indicate emphasis by increasing the pitch range.
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espeakEVENT_PHONEME, fix audio position of vowel when it follows a voiced consonant.
Ensure enough space in the event list when espeak_Initialize() is called with a small buffer size.
Tone languages: set the final stressed syllable to stress=7 so that it can be longer.
lang=zh: adjust vowels
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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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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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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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[1.29.07] Reduce clicks at very low pitches due to numerical overflow in wave generation.
Treat echo-delay = 0 as "no echo", even if ech-amplitude is set.
lang=ru, fix crash for "words" which has produce no phonemes (wg. ":").
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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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[1.28.04] Don't join [v][z] to a liquid [l][r][w][j] across a word boundary.
Changes voice variant file names in espeak_data/voices/!v from !variant12 etc to !varnt12 for DOS 8 character filename limit.
Use a separate phoneme translation file for Swedish voice mbrola "sw2".
Updates languages dictionaries "af", "sv"
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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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