Command line option --voices:
Replace spaces in voice name by underscores.
Show hyphen if no gender is specified.
--voices=<directory> shows the voices in the specified subdirectory.
Language changes: bn (Bengali), an.
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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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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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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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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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Speed increase. Added the "sonic" routines by Bill Cox to reduce the length of eSpeak's sound output data, so as to make the speaking speed faster.
Ordinal numbers: Some languages (el,es) use the ordinal form of hundreds and tens part of a number, as well as the units part. Added language option NUM2_MULTIPLE_ORDINAL.
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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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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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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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lang=hu, ordinal number fixes
--punct, changes to intonation of punctuation names.
Add language option: don't stress second part of hyphenated words.
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Fix: -g command option not working on Windows.
Fix: Text position value in events was limited to 16 bits.
[1.40.15]
espeakedit: Change formant dialog to include Klatt parameters.
espeakedit: Change the format of formant data to include Klatt parameters.
espeakedit: Fix the frequency of F7,F8 at 7800Hz,9000Hz.
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*_list files. Ad feature for ordinal numbers (for some languages).
*_list files. Allow hyphenated word groups to start with a number.
*_list files. Allow "words" of symbols to contain brackets (move check for bracket characters to after the *_list lookup).
--punct option. Fix some unnecessary pauses when speaking punctuation names.
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Fix lettergroups: Sort items to longest first.
Lang en-us: Use rhotic [3] in place of [@] when [r] follows.
Voice files: add attribute "fast-test" to experiment with faster talking speeds.
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Languages which use non-Latin alphabets will automatically speak a word of Latin characters as English (or another specified language) without the need for entries in its *_rules file.
synthesize.cpp, SynthOnTimer(): Ensure the sound channel is open if there items still to be spoken, to prevent sound output lock-up.
Reduce warning messages from compilers.
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Windows SAPI5 installer: Remove the limit on the number of voices specified for inclusion in the Windows Registry.
voices.cpp: Widen formant peaks F3 F4 F5.
Reduce slightly the difference in amplitude between stressed and unstressed vowels.
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*_list files: add attribute $max3 to limit repetitions of a symbol to 3.
-v command option, if the voice-name is not found, lookup using it as a language name.
Windows: allow longer path names for espeak-data.
-m option: Ignore text within <script> and <style> tags.
Reduce default pitch to 80-117.
WavegenCloseSound() check if there remain items to be spoken and re-open the sound channel.
Reduce voicing before voiced plosives.
Corrections to mbrola translation for lang=hi.
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Added experimental Klatt synthesizer.
Klatt phonemes use a new format of phoneme data.
espeakedit, new dialog fields and layout for Klatt phonemes.
Added Klatt versions of English phonemes.
Fixed some compilation warnings on Windows.
Fixed bug in Lettergroups > L10
Increased amplitude of harmonics below F1 peak, to increase bass.
Allow 5 (up from 4) pairs of values in "tone" command in voice files.
Default to slightly wider pk_shape1.
If words are separated by hyphens, don't add word-gap, and don't pass new-word flag onto phoneme processing.
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Added languages: ca (Catalan) lv (Latvian)
Numbers: allow for languages which have numbers for 100,000 and (or not) 10,000,000 (eg. hi, sw)
Phoneme [ts] new files in phsource/ustop
*_rules: fix crash for lettergroups numbers greater than 10, and better error reporting.
Languages: eo, jbo: adjust syllable lengths.
Language: en, fix "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th". But a full ordinal number feature is still needed.
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*_list Allow Hyphens in multi-word entries (aa-bb). This will only match a pair of words which are hyphenated.
*_list Fix abbreviations of the form a.b.cde
Recognise Armenian punctuation, allow and process Armenian punctuation inside words (affects intonation type, and marks the focus word of the clause).
Mbrola: add a delay so that SAPI5 events better follow the speaking.
Mbrola: generate phoneme events, and hence SAPI5 viseme events.
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Fix problem in *_rules files. Conditional rules could cause corrupt phoneme strings.
Voice files, "replace" command using an "unstressed" phoneme now ensures the syllable is unstressed.
lang: us, pronunciation changes, use new phonemeeeeeeeee [@/] (at end of words) and [O].
lang: fr, pronunciation changes.
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Fix SSML <prosody rate> to allow the maximum rate of 390 wpm.
Fixes to the generation of the dict_phonemes report.
Lang=en-n adjust vowel sounds.
Compile phonemes: automatically assume vowel-break marker in second keyframe of a vowel file if none is set.
Set letter group 'A' to "vowel letters only" for Indic alphabets.
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Reduce pause when announcing punctuation.
Fix crash for list of numbers in some languages, eg: "22,23,24,25,26,27..."
Recognise XLL (etc) is not a valid Roman number.
espeak_Cancel(), reset punctuation echo.
Don't permanently change option_phoneme_input after using [[ ]] internally.
lang=af: Only recognise word "'n" as [@] when followed by a space.
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Lang: en-us pronunciation rule changes, adjust some phonemes.
Lang: pl, fr phoneme adjustments.
espeakedit: Fix generation of file "dict_phonemes" (.replace could cause phonemes to be missed).
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Fix crash with SSML <say-as>.
Sada audio output now OK on big-endian processors.
Don't reduce the pause before doubles stop consonants (eg.Finnish "kk") as much at high speeds.
Language changes: pl (reduce length of stressed syllables, [i] closer, [f] stronger befiore [s]).
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