Rewrite cmn_rules. Vowel will be spoken as Mandarin only when it's with a tone number. Otherwise, it will be regarded as English. This will make English words translated more correctly.
cmn now handles all latin characters as English.
The old functionality of assuming latin characters are pinyin can be
achieved with new language cmn-Latn-pinyin.
cmn: use voiceless uvular fricative as pronounciation of pinyin h
According to [1] and [2] , the pronounciation of the pinyin character
h is not accurately [x].
According to [2], [χ] is instead a possible pronounication in young
users.
As a young native speaker of Mandarin, I feel the sound of [χ] in espeak
more satisfied than [x] here.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology
[2] https://phesoca.com/aws/268/
Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <[email protected]>
*_list files. Ad feature for ordinal numbers (for some languages).
*_list files. Allow hyphenated word groups to start with a number.
*_list files. Allow "words" of symbols to contain brackets (move check for bracket characters to after the *_list lookup).
--punct option. Fix some unnecessary pauses when speaking punctuation names.
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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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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: reset phoneme table if speech is cancelled while switched to a second language.
"speak": add -z options (same as for "espeak").
Numbers: Add option to speak "and" before hundreds.
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More fixes for &--; sequences.
lang=es: use phoneme [O] for letter 'o' except at end of word.
leng=es: attempt to improve single 'r' between two vowels.
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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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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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Cameron Wong