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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Fix: Events callback, fix word length information for words with multibyte characters.
Fix: Re-translating a word in a different language after the first langauge has started speaking individual letters, gave silence.
Announce punctuation. If character name is not defined, use English.
Announce punctuation. Fix pitch of the voice which announces punctuation characters.
[[Phonemes]] text input. Allow the language-switch phoneme eg. [[_^_EN hEloU _^_FR]] in the input.
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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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SSML: <voice>, if a language is specified, forget previously selected voice name.
Voice selection, convert language name to lower-case.
espeak-data/mbrola_ph files, allow use by both little and big-endian processors.
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Error message if accented letters are not recognized as alphabetic.
"speak" program. Don't finish when an empty sentence is found.
Compile dictionary: compile *_listx after *_list, not before.
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Fix: reset phoneme table if speech is cancelled while switched to a second language.
"speak": add -z options (same as for "espeak").
Numbers: Add option to speak "and" before hundreds.
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More fixes for &--; sequences.
lang=es: use phoneme [O] for letter 'o' except at end of word.
leng=es: attempt to improve single 'r' between two vowels.
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Fixed bug of missed character after & sequence when --punct option is used.
lang=ta: First attempt at phoneme [l.] retroflex-l.
lang=no: Use phoneme [R] for all cases of "r".
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intonation: changed comma intonation for intonation type 2.
intonation: adjusted exclamation (make the nuclear syllable emphasized).
intonation: split intonation table into body and nucleus parts.
lang-zh: only length tones 2,3 at end of sentence.
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espeakEVENT_PHONEME, fix audio position of vowel when it follows a voiced consonant.
Ensure enough space in the event list when espeak_Initialize() is called with a small buffer size.
Tone languages: set the final stressed syllable to stress=7 so that it can be longer.
lang=zh: adjust vowels
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<say-as tts:char>, if a character name is not defined, say its English name.
phoneme tables, added beforenotvowel2 attribure for lang=tr
lang=tr: initial draft
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lang=en-r: change to phoneme [t#] (reduced "t")
Added "consonants" attribute to voice files.
Minor change to intonation types 2 and 3.
lang=zh: adjust tone levels
lang=fr: adjust stressAmp, adjust consonant strengths.
Platform RISC_OS. Disable the "breath" attribute in voices because floating point is not allowed in callbacks.
Platform RISC_OS. Implement ListVoices()
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Return espeakEVENT_MARK events in AUDIO_OUTPUT_PLAYBACK mode.
New phoneme [ _;_ ] a pause which ends intonation for a clause (the equivalent of a comma).
lang=en-r: adjusted phonemes
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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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Fix an error where vowels start too loud (too strong attack).
Added command-line option --compile-debug, which is like --compile but it includes source line information from the *_rules file, which is displayed with the -X option.
espeakedit: Added Compile->Compile_dictionary(debug),
Fixed <emphasis> which was broken in the previous version(s).
<emphasis> now reduces the previous stressed syllable to secondary stress.
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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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option_emphasize_allcaps in translate.cpp, if set will emphasize words which are all-capitals.
Changed intonation.cpp.
Added an intonation for sentences which end in an exclamation mark.
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