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.
git-svn-id: https://espeak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/espeak/trunk@338 d46cf337-b52f-0410-862d-fd96e6ae7743
Ignore character U+00AD (soft hyphen) in text.
Added stress rule code for Lang=kl (Greenlandic).
Changes to languages: it, ta, si
git-svn-id: https://espeak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/espeak/trunk@294 d46cf337-b52f-0410-862d-fd96e6ae7743
Added language "lt" Lithuanian.
Changes to languages: pt, ta, ka.
Allow ZLNJ character (U+200C) to appear as an alphabetic character (lang=fa).
git-svn-id: https://espeak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/espeak/trunk@285 d46cf337-b52f-0410-862d-fd96e6ae7743
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'.
git-svn-id: https://espeak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/espeak/trunk@276 d46cf337-b52f-0410-862d-fd96e6ae7743