[1.45.02] Release

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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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ For details of the voice files see <a href="voices.html">Voices</a>.
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<dt>
<strong>en-sc</strong><br>
<dd> Scottish English.
<dd> English with a Scottish accent.
<p>
<dt>
<strong>en-n<br>
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ To make alternative voices for a language, you can make additional voice files i
<p>
Alternatively there are some preset voice variants which can be applied to any of the language voices, by appending <code>+</code> and a variant name. Their effects are defined by files in <code>espeak-data/voices/!v</code>.
<p>
The variants are <code> +m1 +m2 +m3 +m4 +m5 </code> for male voices, <code> +f1 +f2 +f3 +f4 </code> for female voices, and <code> +croak +wisper</code> for other effects. For example:
The variants are <code> +m1 +m2 +m3 +m4 +m5 +m6 +m7</code> for male voices, <code> +f1 +f2 +f3 +f4 +f5 </code> for female voices, and <code> +croak +whisper</code> for other effects. For example:
<pre> espeak -ven+m3</pre>
The available voice variants can be listed with:<br>
<pre> espeak --voices=variant</pre>
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ The eSpeak speech synthesizer does text to speech for the following additional l
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>da &nbsp;Danish</strong><br>
<dd>Usable.
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>de &nbsp;German</strong><br>
<dd>This has improved from easlier versions. A problem is stress placement (which like English is irregular), prosody, and the use of compound words where correct detection of the sub-word boundaries would probably be needed for accurate pronunciation.
</dd>
@@ -143,6 +148,11 @@ This contains a few changes from <strong>es</strong>, notably the pronunciation
<dd>This has had some feedback from a native speaker but more work is needed. Spelling is fairly regular, but stress marks and vowel accents are often omitted from text, so for some words the dictionary/exceptions list will need to determine the stress position or whether to use open/close [e] or [E] and [o] or [O].</dd>
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<strong>kn &nbsp;Kannada</strong><br>
<dd>Not much feedback yet, but I'm told that it sounds reasonable.
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>ku &nbsp;Kurdish</strong><br>
<dd>
Not much work yet, but Kurdish has good spelling rules so it should be OK.
@@ -154,6 +164,11 @@ Not much work yet, but Kurdish has good spelling rules so it should be OK.
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>nl &nbsp;Dutch</strong><br>
<dd>Needs improvement of the spelling-to-phoneme rules.
</dd>
<p>
<dt>
<strong>pl &nbsp;Polish</strong><br>
<dd>
Usable.
@@ -176,7 +191,7 @@ Usable.
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<dt>
<strong>sk &nbsp;Slovak</strong><br>
<dd>This has had assistance from a nativ speaker, so it should be OK.
<dd>This has had assistance from a native speaker, so it should be OK.
</dd>
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<dt>
@@ -196,8 +211,7 @@ Usable.
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<dt>
<strong>ta &nbsp;Tamil</strong><br>
<dd>
Not much work yet, but I'm told it sounds reasonable.
<dd>This has had assistance from a native speaker, so it should be OK.
</dd>
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<dt>
@@ -255,6 +269,11 @@ These languages are only initial naive implementations which have had little or
</dd>
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<strong>ka &nbsp;Georgian</strong><br>
<dd>An initial guess, awaiting feedback.
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>la &nbsp;Latin</strong><br>
<dd>Stress rules are implemented, but it needs text where long vowels are marked with macrons.
</dd>
@@ -265,11 +284,6 @@ These languages are only initial naive implementations which have had little or
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>nl &nbsp;Dutch</strong><br>
<dd>Needs improvement of the spelling-to-phoneme rules.
</dd>
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<dt>
<strong>no &nbsp;Norwegian</strong><br>
<dd>An initial guess, awaiting feedback.
</dd>