Speak accented letter names as base-letter name plus accent name, using a table of Unicode characters up to U+17F.
Added $accent attribute for *_list files, meaning "speak as base-letter name plus accent name".
Added accent names to several languages *_list files.
Added language option to allow vowels to merge between words (used for lang=TA).
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Indicate unrecognized letters within a word by clicks.
lang-tr: Non-standard lower case conversion for "I".
Tone languages: indicate emphasis by increasing the pitch range.
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Remove pause before <say-as> if it's at the beginning of a sentence.
Added --split=<minutes> command-line option. Splits output WAV file (at sentence boundaries).
Fix: espeakEVENT_SENTENCE events were missing.
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Pitch changes for mbrola are now applied over the first 80% of the phoneme, not over the whole length of the phoneme. This seems to give better intonation for mbrola voices.
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lang=vi: recognise combining accent characters (for tone accents).
Use a different intonation pattern, with more expression, for sentences which end in exclamation mark.
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Changes to voice selection code to accept voice+variant voice names in SSML tags.
Changes to voice change code to use function DoVoiceChange().
lang=pt: Don't reduce phoneme [&~] to the more open [&] in unstressed syllables.
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Changes voice variant file names in espeak_data/voices/!v from !variant12 etc to !varnt12 for DOS 8 character filename limit.
Use a separate phoneme translation file for Swedish voice mbrola "sw2".
Updates languages dictionaries "af", "sv"
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lang=en-r, adjusted vowels.
Moved single characters (eg. % @) from *_list to *_rules so they can be used in combinations (eg. %-).
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Defined a Revision number macro in speak_lib.h for interface changes.
Changes to formant rate smoothing so that it's proportional to frequency.
Add phoneme translations for mbrola "it3" "it4" Italian voices.
Added rule in *_rules files for "word starts with capital letter".
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Added mechanism to reduce [t] before unstressed vowels (for en-us)
Fixed X (no vowels) operator in pre-rules in *_rules files.
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