It is possible -- especially at higher speeds -- for the n at the
end of a word to be velarised if the next word starts with a velar
plosive. I prefer the velarised sound between word boundaries, but
others do not. As such, limit the velarisation to within the word
only.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology
This is a step in the transition to using a common IPA-based
phoneme table for the pronunciations. It allows the base phonemes
to import the IPA versions during this transition phase.
The 'dontlist' feature was used by the now removed PrintPhonemesUsed
function to not display that phoneme in the list. It was also only
used by the English phonemetable.
Command-line: added options --sep --tie.
API, changed the meaning of the "phonememode" parameter in espeak_SetPhonemeTrace() and espeak_TextToPhonemes().
Language changes to: en, eu, pt.
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Fix bug in 1.48.08, mispronouncing English words when using a voice with a non-Alatin alphabet (eg. Tamil).
Language changes: en, fa, pt, ta
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Updated eSpeak makefile to inherit compiler options.
Language Greek (el): recognize polytonic spelling.
Language changes: en, gu, it, pt, ta, ur.
Language phoneme changes: de [r], hi [a:] [r].
Added phoneme table for Arabic.
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Added rule attribute $noprefix for *_rules files. The rule is not used if a prefix has been removed from the word.
Language changes: en, or, pt, ta.
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Language changes:
an, en, es, fa, gu, it, pt, ta, te.
Voice files: added attribute 'dictdialect', eg:
dictdialect en-us
uses the US English voice to speak words or rules which are marked with _^_EN
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lang=zh: Fix: was speaking Chinese character names as character codes.
lang=hr, sr: Fix: speak Cyrillic character names in the local langauge.
Phoneme definitions: add new statement type "LengthAdd <signed number>".
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Command line option --ipa can have option to include Tie or ZWJ characters to disabmiguate multi-letter phoneme names.
Recognize and ignore UTF8-BOM byte sequence at the start of phoneme definition files.
Languages changes: ta, nl, pt.
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Improve error detection in *_list files.
Lang=hu, remove feature to unstress the second of two capitalized words at end of clause.
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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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Don't omit <marker> event for words which are recognized as pairs (such as "of the").
Lang=Spanish, fix missing "y" in numbers such as "21".
Lang=EN-US, Don't add 'intrusive r' between phoneme [i@] and a following vowel.
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Phoneme definitions.
New keyword "prevoice", always add murmer before a voiced stop, not only after a vowel.
Fixed bug in nextVowel() condition.
Fixed bug is condition "isRhotic".
Command line options.
On Windows, -- means don't treat following arguments as options.
--help output now should the espeak-data path.
Tools->Lexicon. Redesign Lexicon processing for Russian and Bulgarian.
Numbers. Fixes for Hungarian ordinal numbers.
Fixed bug where double .. was ignored.
Fixed bug in reporting word event lengths in callbacks.
Fixed bug in reporting marker event positions in callbacks, when non-ascii text.
SSML.
Allow single as well as double quotes around strings.
Fix bugs in SSML "prosody rate".
Speed.
Only use Sonic speedups greater than x2.
Use custom eSpeak speed settings when Sonic speedup is used.
Mbrola. Look for Mbrola voice also at /usr/share/mbrola/xx/xx
espeakedit. Try "aplay" and then "play" to play sound.
Languages:
Kannada (kn) now in official release.
Esperanto (eo) change prosody.
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Phoneme definitions. Add "equivalents" table to translate phonemes from a foreign language (eg. English) into the equivalant phonemes of this language. This is used when *_rules and *_list files indicate that a word uses pronunciation rules from a different language.
Unpronouncable words can be recognised by rules in *_rule files. This feature is now used for en, de, es.
Lang=ta, hi. Letter-names for combining vowel characters are distinguished from stand-alone vowel characters by a preceding beep.
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Indicate language changes in IPA phoneme output.
Phoneme definitions FMT(), second parameter is amplitude percentage.
Phoneme definitions CALL(), If phoneme type is not defined, copy the static attributes from the called phoneme.
Unpronouncable word check: stop when an apostrophe is reached.
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espeakedit --compile also compiles the intonation data
Added feature to produce phonemes as International Phonetic Alphabet.
phoneme definitions: Added "ipa" instruction to specify IPA phoneme name.
When spelling as individual characters, calculate the stress position for each character name.
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Fix: Speak punctuation option also caused text after [[ to be spoken as phoneme codes even if espeakPHONEMES flag is not set.
Speak sequences of letters and dots as individual letters, and don't speak 'dot', eg. "u.s.a."
Don't announce punctuation in the alternative text inside <audio ... </audio>
Vowelcharts, show the positions of multiple FMT() in vowel phonemes definitions.
Phoneme definitions:
New attributes: flag1, flag2, flag3
New attribute: nopause. Prevents the insertion of a short pause when this phoneme starts a word which follows a vowel.
New conditions: isFlag1, isFlag2, isFlag3, isSibilant.
New statement: InsertPhoneme()
Phonemes: improve syllablic [m-] [n-] [N-]
*_rules: add attributes $p_alt .. $p_alt3, $w_alt .. $w_alt3
*_list: add attributes: $sentence, $atstart
klatt synthesizer: implement echo.
espeakedit, Prosody display: Indicate stressed and secondary-stress syllables.
espeakedit: remember window size and position.
Intonation:
New file, 'phsource/intonation' to define 'tunes' which can be used from voice files.
espeakedit: add Compile -> Intonationm data
Speed: Increase range to 80 to 450, with default=175.
Improve speaking at high speeds.
lang=en: Reduce consecutive unstressed syllables to 'diminished' stress, only in unstressed words.
lang=de: Change 'r' phoneme.
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*_list files: added attribute $sentence.
*_rules files: added attributes $w_alt, $p_alt.
phoneme definitions: added attribute no_pause.
-X command-line option: Show the matching of multiple-word entries in *_list files.
espeakedit: Add menu option to compile the intonation data file (the data is not yet used).
Start language: Bulgarian.
lang=bg (Bulgarian): Add feature in espeakedit to make bg_listx from a lexicon of words which have stress position mark-up.
espeakedit: Change the frame-length field from Spin Control to Text Control to allow better access from screen-readers.
Language options: add an option to the Regressive Voicing option to de-voice the final consonant of words.
Don't speak "dot" if an ellipsis is followed by a dot.
Intonation: change the internal pitch unit to give finer control, and align with the values displayed in the espeakedit Prosody window.
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Reece H. Dunn