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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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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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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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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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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Moves "wisper" and "croak" into voices/!v.
Voice variants can now be specified as en+wisper, en+f2 (for female 2), etc.
espeak --voices=variant lists the voice variants.
Moves some lines from speech.h into other header files.
Possible fix for data version check on big-endian.
Fixed crash error iin LoadConfig().
Fixed crash in espeakedit: press Tab in enpty Prosody window.
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Fix to UTF-8/8-bit character set recognition.
lang=de, more additions to translation rules, changed phoneme name [OI] to [OY].
lang=it, turned of "syntactic doubling" (temporarily?)
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Mbrola translations, option to not match across a word boundary.
Mbrola translations, allow check of lengthen indicator [:].
espeakedit, add operation to apply a voice's formants modifications to a keyframe.
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lang=hu, set no secondary stress; [e:] [E] are closer,
Don't consider mbrola voices during voice selection.
Fix voice variant not being set from SSML.
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Added new phonemes [s.] and [z.] (as common phonemes), use in Lang=ru, Lang=sv, Lang=hi
Remake WAV files for [s;] and [z;] phonemes.
espeak_Terminate(), set pointers to NULL after free().
espeak_Initialize(), returns EE_INTERNAL_ERROR (-1) if fails to allocate memory.
Change to the default tone setting (array: tone_points in voices.cpp).
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Don't read all the voice files on start, wait until they are needed.
Added 'W' code to _rules files to mean: further letters follow while spelling a word.
Lang=fr replace [r] with [R], shorten [R] slightly
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