These are some improvements to the german voices, both default and mbrola. It fixes some sounds of phonemes and also pronunciation of words. I also modified the mbrola phoneme and voice files to make them sound more natural. The stressLength setting is that it matches the way espeak deals with the lengths.
Reinstate language "az" (Azerbaijani) as a test voice.
Language changes: ga, hy, pt, sk.
Generate character names for subscript and superscript letters and digits.
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Ignore character U+00AD (soft hyphen) in text.
Added stress rule code for Lang=kl (Greenlandic).
Changes to languages: it, ta, si
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Added language "lt" Lithuanian.
Changes to languages: pt, ta, ka.
Allow ZLNJ character (U+200C) to appear as an alphabetic character (lang=fa).
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Speak names of characters U+2800 to U+28FF, Braille dot symbols.
Language option to speak numbers which use characters '0' to '9' with the English voice.
Add some more characters to the vowel and consonant lists for Indian languages.
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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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Amplitude changes now apply also to mbrola voices.
"voicing" attribute is now used in mbrola voice files to set the voice loudness.
SSML commands such as <mark> and <prosody> were ignored if they were inside a multiword group (defined in *_list). This is now fixed so that the command is processed at the end of the group.
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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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Fix Mbrola translation for nl2 (phoneme [w]) and de4 (phoneme [?]).
Fix bug, lang=tr, letter capital-I-dot not recognized on Windows.
Only use "sonic" speed-up above 450wpm.
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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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Karl Eick