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.
This is a step in the transition to using a common IPA-based
phoneme table for the pronunciations. It allows the base phonemes
to import the IPA versions during this transition phase.
Changes to:
en, pt,
it, implement ordinal numbers.
eu, stress positions.
es, revert change to [t] and [k]
de, change to sounds "pr" and "kr".
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Updated eSpeak makefile to inherit compiler options.
Language Greek (el): recognize polytonic spelling.
Language changes: en, gu, it, pt, ta, ur.
Language phoneme changes: de [r], hi [a:] [r].
Added phoneme table for Arabic.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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lang=it, added dictsource/it_listx with corrections for stress position and open/close vowel type.
Changes to allow compilation on WinCE (Windows Mobile), with notes in platforms/windowsMobile.
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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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Karl Eick