HomoFast-eSpeak-Persian/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

1. espeak-ng
2. espeak

espeak-ng

The espeak-ng project is a fork of the espeak project.

1.49.2 - (In Development)

• Support describing all IPA phonemes in the phoneme tables.
• Provide more validation when reading phoneme tables and voice/language files.
• Removed support for phoneme equivalence tables. These were disabled in the French and German language files.
• Allow pre- as well as post-jump rules in dictionary files.
• Support building the Windows version with Visual Studio 2013.
• Use language and accent names consistently across the language files.

bug fixes:

• Fix running make clean ; make.
• Fix reading stdin buffers larger than 1000.

new languages:

• bpy (Bishnupriya Manipuri) -- Vardhan
• kok (Konkani) -- Vardhan
• mi (Māori) -- Graham Oliver
• sd (Sindhi, Arabic script) -- Vardhan

updated languages:

• af (Afrikaans) -- Christo de Klerk
• du (Dutch) -- Leonard de Ruijter
• en (English) -- Reece Dunn
• fr (French) -- Valdis Vitolins; Reece Dunn
• gu (Gujarati) -- Vardhan
• hi (Hindi) -- Vardhan
• it (Italian) -- chrislm
• ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
• mr (Marathi) -- Vardhan
• or (Oriya) -- Vardhan
• ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah

1.49.1 - 2017-01-21

• Vim syntax support for rule files.
• Replace ieee80.c with the implementation at http://www.realitypixels.com/turk/opensource/ToFromIEEE.c.txt for Debian open source license compliance.
• Documentation updates.
• Emscripten support.
• Merged the Android port into the main espeak-ng codebase.
• Extend --compile-phoneme to support specifying the source directory for phoneme files.
• Support using any directory as the data home, not just espeak-ng-data.
• Don’t install the default voice: use en as the default voice.

NOTE: The merger of the Android code is currently experimental. It is missing support for recognising Unicode characters.

bug fixes:

• Fix .Lnn rule groups to allow groups above 62.
• Fix reporting the eSpeak NG version in the --version string and Windows installer.
• Fix a crash when calling LoadDictionary when using clang.
• Threading fixes and Mac OSX portability for the fifo and event code.
• Fixes for running the spect code on big-endian architectures.
• Fix determining the voice directory when installing the 32-bit Windows binaries on a 64-bit Windows system.
• Fix a regression with the saved parameter logic.
• Reduce the default buffer length to 60mS to improve latency.
• Don’t override buffer length when using espeak-ng for audio.
• Fix detecting doubled consonants when using Unicode characters.
• Fix speaking 1,,2, etc. in languages that use , as a decimal separator.

updated languages:

• af (Afrikaans) -- Christo de Klerk
• en (English) -- Valdis Vitolins
• fa (Farsi/Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
• it (Italian) -- chrislm
• ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
• lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
• tr (Turkish) -- Valdis Vitolins

new languages:

• ar (Arabic) -- Taha Zerrouki
• jp (Japanese) -- Reece Dunn (NOTE: Hiragana and Katakana only.)

1.49.0 - 2016-09-10

• 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.
• Group languages by their language family and use BCP47 compliant names.
• Support for Windows and BSD platforms.
• Removed support for WinCE, MS-DOS and RiscOS.
• Add support for maintainer and status field in voice files for tracking voice maintenance.
• Vim syntax highlighting for espeak dictionary (list and rules) files.
• Support reading input from named pipes.
• Fix wav file truncation when reading multiline text from stdin or a named pipe.

build:

• Build the code with a C99 compiler, instead of a C++ compiler.
• Provide a pkg-config file (patch by Luke Yelavich).
• Use -fPIC to support sparc/sparc64 architectures.
• Removed the local 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, with a WiX-based project to create an MSI installer.
• 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.
• Use the libespeak-ng API in speak-ng using a shared implementation with espeak-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.
• Replaced the audio APIs with PCAudioLib to improve portability of the audio and to share that across different projects.
• Reworked the synchronous audio to share the code paths with asynchronous audio.

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:

• en (English) -- Thanks to Kendell Clark for identifying mispronunciations.
• el (Greek) : improved polytonic Greek support
• es (Spanish) : ChrisLeo (improved intonations)
• fa (Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
• fr (French) -- Thomas Guillory
• ga (Irish Gaelic) -- Jim Regan
• it (Italian) -- ChrisLeo
• lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins

new languages:

• gn (Guarani) -- ChrisLeo
• ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
• mb-br2 (Brazillian Portuguese)
• mb-de* (German) : extend support coverage of the German MBROLA voices
• mb-lt1 (Lithuanian) -- embar
• mb-lt2 (Lithuanian) -- embar
• mt (Maltese)
• my (Myanmar/Burmese) -- Min Maung, Lwin Moe
• tn (Setswana)
• tt (Tatar)

espeak

The espeak project was developed by Jonathan Duddington.

This history log is for a fork of the espeak project maintained by Reece H. Dunn. This project was designed to:

1. Make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.
2. Keep track of the source code releases that differed from the releases in the subversion repository.

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:

• om (Oromo)

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:

• om (Oromo)

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.