E.g. for 'port' this goes through following transformations:
1. written 'port' to phonetic [p'o*@-tS] for eSpeak NG
2. espeak [*] was mapped to MBROLA [r] and [@-] was just skipped
resulting [rt] which is not allowed diphone in br1 voice.
Description of fix:
mapping phonetic [*@-] to [r2] (and skipping [@-]) makes [r2-...] which is
in diphone database. That fixed warnings:
mbrola: Warning: r-t unkown, replaced with _-_
mbrola: Warning: r-d unkown, replaced with _-_
mbrola: Warning: r-n unkown, replaced with _-_
mbrola: Warning: r-m unkown, replaced with _-_
mbrola: Warning: r-s unkown, replaced with _-_
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.
Fix: SSML <voice> </voice> lost the current voice.
Fix: French Mbrola voices.
Command-line, add --ipa=3 separates phoneme names with underscores.
Language changes, an, hi, pt.
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Ignore character U+00AD (soft hyphen) in text.
Added stress rule code for Lang=kl (Greenlandic).
Changes to languages: it, ta, si
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Added language "lt" Lithuanian.
Changes to languages: pt, ta, ka.
Allow ZLNJ character (U+200C) to appear as an alphabetic character (lang=fa).
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Fixed crash on re-initializing libespeak.
lang=hu, experimental, if the last two words of a clause (before punctuation) both have capital letters, then make the last word unstressed. This is useful for people names, but may be wrong for other cases.
lang=en-us, distinguish phonemes [aI@] and [aI3] (compare "diet", "tired").
lang=de, fix automatic devoicing of word-final 'b', 'd', 'g'.
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Amplitude changes now apply also to mbrola voices.
"voicing" attribute is now used in mbrola voice files to set the voice loudness.
SSML commands such as <mark> and <prosody> were ignored if they were inside a multiword group (defined in *_list). This is now fixed so that the command is processed at the end of the group.
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Don't speak punctuation names faster at high speeds.
lang=ml, recognise "virama + U+200d" (zero-width joiner) to indicte 'chillu' characters.
Fix problem of punctuation character announcement repeated at the start of the next sentence after speaking is stopped.
Fixed crash due to large numbers of box-drawing characters in text input.
Fixed phoneme translation of 't' sounds for US-English voices.
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Fix Mbrola translation for nl2 (phoneme [w]) and de4 (phoneme [?]).
Fix bug, lang=tr, letter capital-I-dot not recognized on Windows.
Only use "sonic" speed-up above 450wpm.
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Change in format of *_dict files. 'Word-boundary' at the start of a rule from *_rules is not implied by a new rule type RULE_PRE_ATSTART.
espeakedit: Improvements to Tools->Process Lexicon->Italian which makes the file dictsource/it_listx.
lang=hu, fixes for ordinal numbers.
Speed-up, add files sonic.cpp, sonic.h
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Valdis Vitolins