This is a Variant I created called male8, probably one of the smoothest sounding espeak male variants ever. It sounds very good with inflection at 100, which I don't know if you can only change in NVDA or other programs too.

synthesize.h now contains the definitions STRESS_IS_... that should be used with code related to syllable stress.

Note that isBreak and other defines were renumbered so that stress definitions could have values 0-6.

Possible TODOs:
1. Unify with terms used with phonemes, i.e. keywords like isDiminished in compiledata.c and stress_type in phsource/phonemes
2. Add functionality and documentation about STRESS_IS_PRIORITY and STRESS_IS_EMPHASIZED

Stress flag S_2_TO_HEAVY is currently only used by finnish.

Current behaviour skips adding secondary stress if the following syllable is heavy. The behaviour should be to skip adding secondary stress if the rest of the word (excluding last syllable) contains a heavy syllable.

Source of grammar rule and examples of expected behaviour: http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=13

Source: http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=13

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.

This reverts commit 0f55204522.

This breaks using voice files like mb-de5-en. It could also use
named values for the stress rules (e.g. 'first-syllable').