Change Log
(In Development)
- Support the
--compile-mbrola
command-line option.
- Support the
--compile-phonemes
command-line option.
- Support the
--compile-intonations
command-line option.
- Support SSML <phoneme alphabet=“espeak” ph=“…”> tags.
- Added man files for the
speak-ng
and espeak-ng
command-line programs.
- Created a companion espeak-ng API to provide more detailed error codes and
provide access to the new espeak-ng functionality.
- Fixed many logic and security issues reported by clang scan-build, Coverity
and msvc /analyze.
build:
- Build the code with a C99 compiler, instead of a C++ compiler.
- Use -fPIC to support sparc/sparc64 architectures.
- Use the system’s portaudio header files.
- Use the system’s sonic library and header files.
- Output phoneme compilation errors to stderr.
- Generate build failures if building phoneme, intonation or dictionary files
contain errors.
- Provide modern Visual Studio project files to build eSpeak NG on Windows.
- Use the NetBSD
getopt_long
implementation on Windows.
restructuring:
- Moved the library code to
src/libespeak-ng
.
- Renamed
espeak
to espeak-ng
.
- Renamed
speak
to speak-ng
.
- Moved the code to build the mbrola voice data, phoneme tables and intonation
data to libespeak-ng.
- Removed the
espeakedit
program and the associated wxWidgets dependency.
- Removed the platforms directory and approaching portability in a similar way
to how libressl handles portability.
- Converted the documentation to markdown.
- Group the Windows and POSIX mbrowrap code to provide the
mbrowrap.h
implementation in a single place.
cleanup:
- Removed unused/empty internal header files.
- Removed unused and commented out code.
- Reformatted the code to use a consistent style and indentation.
- Fixed many GCC and clang warnings.
- Improved the error handling within the codebase to report the underlying
error where possible.
- Inlined several wrapper methods that were adding little/no value.
updated languages:
- el (Greek) : improved polytonic Greek support
- fr (French) -- Thomas Guillory
- ga (Irish Gaelic) -- Jim Regan
- it (Italian) -- ChrisLeo
- lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
new languages:
- mb-br2 (Brazillian Portuguese)
- mb-lt1 (Lithuanian) -- embar
- mb-lt2 (Lithuanian) -- embar
- mt (Maltese)
- my (Myanmar/Burmese) -- Min Maung, Lwin Moe
- tn (Setswana)
- tt (Tatar)
Historic
These are a condensed set of releases that were maintained in step with the
upstream eSpeak releases. The releases containing minor build fixes, or only
incorporating upstream changes have been ommitted.
1.48.11 - 2014-08-31
- Support building the MBROLA voice files.
- mbrola/de6 support for syllabic m and syllabic n.
1.47.14 - 2013-12-03
- Support building with the extended Chinese and Russian dictionary data.
1.47.13 - 2013-10-22
updated languages:
1.47.12 - 2013-10-12
- Added the NVDA voice variants.
- Do not crash if
espeak_SetPunctuationList
is called with a NULL
punctuation list.
- Fix a segfault in
GetTranslatedPhonemeString
.
new languages:
build:
- Support the
--with-async
configure option.
- Support the
--with-sonic
configure option.
- Support the
--with-mbrola
configure option.
- Support the
--with-klatt
configure option.
- Support the
--with-sada
configure option.
- More build improvements.
1.46.23 - 2012-09-11
- Converted the build to use autotools.
1.46.11 - 2011-12-31
- Support building all the voice dictionaries.
- More build improvements.
1.43.46 - 2010-06-28
- Initial build changes to make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.