[1.30] Add option for a pause between words: command option -g or espeak_SetParameter(espeak_WORDGAP)

Add different intonation styles (attribute "intonation"  in voices files).


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<ul>
<li>Make the spelling-to-phoneme translation rules more accurate, including the position of stressed
syllables within words. Some languages are easier than others. I expect most are easier than English.
<p><li>Improve the sounds of the phonemes. This may consist of making small adjustments to vowel and diphthong quality,
<p><li>Improve the sounds of the phonemes. It may be that a phoneme should sound different depending on adjacent sounds, or whether it's at the start or the end of a word, between vowels, etc. This may consist of making small adjustments to vowel and diphthong quality,
or adjusting the strength of consonants. Bigger changes may be recording new or replacement consonant
sounds, or even writing program code to implement new types of sounds.
<p><li>Marking some common words in the dictionary that should be unstressed (words such as "the", "is"), or should be preceded
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ characteristics of the language which are not currently implemented. For exampl
</ul>
<b><em>If you are interested in working on a language, please contact me to set up the initial data and to
discuss the features of the language.</em></b>
<p>
For most of the eSpeak voices, I do not speak or understand the language, and I do not know how it should sound. I can only make improvements as a result of feedback from speakers of that language. If you want to help to improve a language, listen carefully and try to identify individual errors, either in the spelling-to-phoneme translation, the position of stressed syllables within words, or the sound of phonemes, or problems with rhythm and vowel lengths.
<HR>
<H3>6.1 Language Code</H3>
<P>Generally, the language's international <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1">ISO 639-1 code</a> is used to