These are some improvements to the german voices, both default and mbrola. It fixes some sounds of phonemes and also pronunciation of words. I also modified the mbrola phoneme and voice files to make them sound more natural. The stressLength setting is that it matches the way espeak deals with the lengths.
Ignore character U+00AD (soft hyphen) in text.
Added stress rule code for Lang=kl (Greenlandic).
Changes to languages: it, ta, si
git-svn-id: https://espeak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/espeak/trunk@294 d46cf337-b52f-0410-862d-fd96e6ae7743
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.
git-svn-id: https://espeak.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/espeak/trunk@244 d46cf337-b52f-0410-862d-fd96e6ae7743
Reece H. Dunn