klatt voices, Added nasal formant value to nasal vowels.
Fixed bug: speaking "hyphen" between two words with $combine attribute.
Language changes: an, pt, ta.
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Fix bug in SAPI5 version: speed suddenly changes to very slow when speaking a word which contains foreign characters.
Language changes: da, fa, hu, pt, ur.
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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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Fixes to speaking characters from foreign alphabets.
Allow $textmode and $text to translate between words in different alphabets.
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espeakedit: Prosody window now shows the FMT() or WAV() filename
and the standard length of the selected phoneme.
Added the ability to produce speech at different sample rates.
To use rates other than the default 22050Hz, the phoneme data must
be recompiled. This needs the "sox" program to be available.
(sox.sourceforge.net).
espeakedit: Added menu option to compile the phoneme data at a
specified sample rate (rather than the default 22050Hz).
phondata: Includes the value of the sample rate at which the data was compiled.
Language changes: pt.
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For languages with non-Latin alphabets (eg. Cyrillic), don't allow a mixture of native and Latin characters in a word. Instead break it into separate words.
Dictionary changes for: ta, hu, pt, ne,.
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Added language "lt" Lithuanian.
Changes to languages: pt, ta, ka.
Allow ZLNJ character (U+200C) to appear as an alphabetic character (lang=fa).
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Speak names of characters U+2800 to U+28FF, Braille dot symbols.
Language option to speak numbers which use characters '0' to '9' with the English voice.
Add some more characters to the vowel and consonant lists for Indian languages.
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Add --version command-line option.
Allow hexadecimal numbers for UTF-8 bytes in rules in *_rules files.
wave_pulse.cpp, ensure wave_close is not called again while waiting.
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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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Fixed bug where SSML voice change didn't remember an initially specified Klatt variant.
Removed some unused variables and redundant initializations.
Patch to fix a spike from Klatt function setzeroabc()
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Keep the original voice variant across SSML xml:lang changes.
Use the original language sub-type (eg. en-sc) when SSML xml:lang changes to a compatible language.
SSML <emphasis>, increase volume for "strong" and "x-strong".
Fix bug where </emphasis> was ignored at end of clause.
Fix: $dot attribute was ignored for multi-word entries in *_list files.
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Amplitude changes now apply also to mbrola voices.
"voicing" attribute is now used in mbrola voice files to set the voice loudness.
SSML commands such as <mark> and <prosody> were ignored if they were inside a multiword group (defined in *_list). This is now fixed so that the command is processed at the end of the group.
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-x command-line option. Fixed possible buffer overflow when writing phoneme output.
Slavic languages, changed behaviour of [v] during voiced/unvoiced propagation.
When looking for a word boundary when breaking long clauses, allow for greater word size (Southern Indian languages have big words 3-byte UTF-8 character codes).
$combine. Don't combine with the nerxt word if it is translated using a different language.
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Don't speak punctuation names faster at high speeds.
lang=ml, recognise "virama + U+200d" (zero-width joiner) to indicte 'chillu' characters.
Fix problem of punctuation character announcement repeated at the start of the next sentence after speaking is stopped.
Fixed crash due to large numbers of box-drawing characters in text input.
Fixed phoneme translation of 't' sounds for US-English voices.
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lang=Turkish, fix pronunciation of suffixes, fix suffixes after names.
Windows: command option --stdout caused spurious 0x0d bytes to be included in speech output (CR/LF problem).
Fixed crash which could occur when a clause starts with a hyphen.
espeakedit: New input format for Bulgarian lexicon.
lang=de: Fix important pronunciation error (editing error) for "sage".
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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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Change in format of *_dict files. 'Word-boundary' at the start of a rule from *_rules is not implied by a new rule type RULE_PRE_ATSTART.
espeakedit: Improvements to Tools->Process Lexicon->Italian which makes the file dictsource/it_listx.
lang=hu, fixes for ordinal numbers.
Speed-up, add files sonic.cpp, sonic.h
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Fix error in big-endian data conversion program, producing bad data.
Make geminated voiced stops (eg. [bb] ) longer at fast speeds.
Provide conditional compilation of the mbrola interface, define macro INCLUDE_MBROLA in speech.h
Mbrola: also look for mbrola voices in /usr/share/mbrola/voices
Pad TUNES and frame_t structures to a multiple of 4 bytes.
lang=da, Don't weaken unvoiced stops before pause.
lang=el, Remove final unstressed [a] if the next word starts with [a].
lang=pt, Change final [U] to [w] if next word starts with a vowel.
espeak 1.44.03
Fixes:
Lang=el, mk. Was speaking words as individual letters.
Lang=pl. Fix prounciation of 'ć' and 'ci'.
Fix crash in big-endian data conversion program.
Fix problem where changing voices reduces the speaking rate, at fast rates.
speak_lib.h: add macro definitions for minimum, maximum, and normal speaking rate values.
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Fix: crash with very long numbers.
Very long nubers ( > 14 digits) now spoken as individual digits.
Fix: bracket was interfering with recognizing last-word in a clause.
Lang=el fix: all words were spoken as individual letters.
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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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Fix crash when embedded control codes are followed by numbers of 5 or more digits.
Fix lang=hu, First character of an abbreviation is missed after an ordinal number (eg."2. cd")
Fix XML tag not recognized after "..." when announce punctuation is enabled.
Fix lang=zh-yue, 'p' 't' 'k' after a vowel give a long pause.
Fix lang=ru, "o" missing in unstressed syllables.
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Language improvements include Danish rules.
Fixed phoneme [n^] for Klatt synthesizer, was producing noise burst.
espeakedit: Display error details after Compile Dictionary.
espeakedit: Fix: After speaking a word which changes language, Compile
Dictionary may compile the wrong dictionary.
Don't consider multiple spaces as thousands separator (eg. 2 000 )
Lang=Hungarian, don't allow dot as thousands separator.
Lang-Hungarian, Fix suffixes -a, -e, -az, -ez, -azt, -ezt after numbers.
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Don't recognize space as a thousands separator if it's tab, newline, or multiple spaces.
Don't recognuze space as a thousands separator if not followed by exactly 3 digits.
Unrecognized HTML tags should not add a space (eg. <font> <b> inside a word).
lang=hu: fixes for when numbers are ordinal.
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