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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Fix: Speak punctuation option also caused text after [[ to be spoken as phoneme codes even if espeakPHONEMES flag is not set.
Speak sequences of letters and dots as individual letters, and don't speak 'dot', eg. "u.s.a."
Don't announce punctuation in the alternative text inside <audio ... </audio>
Vowelcharts, show the positions of multiple FMT() in vowel phonemes definitions.
Phoneme definitions:
New attributes: flag1, flag2, flag3
New attribute: nopause. Prevents the insertion of a short pause when this phoneme starts a word which follows a vowel.
New conditions: isFlag1, isFlag2, isFlag3, isSibilant.
New statement: InsertPhoneme()
Phonemes: improve syllablic [m-] [n-] [N-]
*_rules: add attributes $p_alt .. $p_alt3, $w_alt .. $w_alt3
*_list: add attributes: $sentence, $atstart
klatt synthesizer: implement echo.
espeakedit, Prosody display: Indicate stressed and secondary-stress syllables.
espeakedit: remember window size and position.
Intonation:
New file, 'phsource/intonation' to define 'tunes' which can be used from voice files.
espeakedit: add Compile -> Intonationm data
Speed: Increase range to 80 to 450, with default=175.
Improve speaking at high speeds.
lang=en: Reduce consecutive unstressed syllables to 'diminished' stress, only in unstressed words.
lang=de: Change 'r' phoneme.
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*_list files: added attribute $sentence.
*_rules files: added attributes $w_alt, $p_alt.
phoneme definitions: added attribute no_pause.
-X command-line option: Show the matching of multiple-word entries in *_list files.
espeakedit: Add menu option to compile the intonation data file (the data is not yet used).
Start language: Bulgarian.
lang=bg (Bulgarian): Add feature in espeakedit to make bg_listx from a lexicon of words which have stress position mark-up.
espeakedit: Change the frame-length field from Spin Control to Text Control to allow better access from screen-readers.
Language options: add an option to the Regressive Voicing option to de-voice the final consonant of words.
Don't speak "dot" if an ellipsis is followed by a dot.
Intonation: change the internal pitch unit to give finer control, and align with the values displayed in the espeakedit Prosody window.
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Fix lettergroups: Sort items to longest first.
Lang en-us: Use rhotic [3] in place of [@] when [r] follows.
Voice files: add attribute "fast-test" to experiment with faster talking speeds.
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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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*_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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Lang: en-us pronunciation rule changes, adjust some phonemes.
Lang: pl, fr phoneme adjustments.
espeakedit: Fix generation of file "dict_phonemes" (.replace could cause phonemes to be missed).
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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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Return espeakEVENT_MARK events in AUDIO_OUTPUT_PLAYBACK mode.
New phoneme [ _;_ ] a pause which ends intonation for a clause (the equivalent of a comma).
lang=en-r: adjusted phonemes
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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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[1.25.11] Fix problem with temporary language change when using a voice-variant.
lang=hu Merge "nem" with next word.
lang=ro Many additions to ro_list. Change phoneme [o].
lang=af Update phoneme [R], which also appears as [R3] in general consonants.
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[1.24.12] Produce dictsource/dict_phonemes, a list of which phonemes are used by each language's *_rules and *_list files.
Fix crash with -X option when spelling words (acronyms).
Rules files: added special character X meaning "no vowel until the word boundary". Used for lang=no.
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Lang=hr, transliterate Cyrillic characters to Latin using TranslateChar().
TranslateChar() can now substitute a character by two replacement characters.
Lang=cs, more difference between long and short vowels, less length differnence beteeen stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Reece H. Dunn