espeak-ng/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

(In Development)

• Support the --compile-mbrola command-line option.
• Support the --compile-phonemes command-line option.
• Support the --compile-intonations command-line option.
• Support SSML <phoneme alphabet="espeak" ph="..."> tags.
• Use -fPIC to support sparc/sparc64 architectures.
• Use the system's portaudio header files.
• Use the system's sonic library and header files.
• Added man files for the speak-ng and espeak-ng command-line programs.
• Output phoneme compilation errors to stderr.
• Generate build failures if building phoneme, intonation or dictionary files contain errors.

restructuring:

• Build the code with a C11 compiler, instead of a C++ compiler.
• Moved the library code to src/libespeak-ng.
• Renamed espeak to espeak-ng.
• Renamed speak to speak-ng.
• Moved the code to build the mbrola voice data, phoneme tables and intonation data to libespeak-ng.
• Removed the espeakedit program and the associated wxWidgets dependency.
• Removed the platforms directory.
• Converted the documentation to markdown.

cleanup:

• Removed unused/empty internal header files.
• Removed unused and commented out code.
• Reformatted the code to use a consistent style and indentation.
• Fixed many GCC and clang warnings.

updated languages:

• fr (French) -- Thomas Guillory
• ga (Irish Gaelic) -- Jim Regan
• it (Italian) -- ChrisLeo
• lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins

new languages:

• mb-br2 (Brazillian Portuguese)
• mb-lt1 (Lithuanian) -- embar
• mb-lt2 (Lithuanian) -- embar
• mt (Maltese)
• tn (Setswana)
• tt (Tatar)

Historic

These are a condensed set of releases that were maintained in step with the upstream eSpeak releases. The releases containing minor build fixes, or only incorporating upstream changes have been ommitted.

1.48.11 - 2014-08-31

• Support building the MBROLA voice files.
• mbrola/de6 support for syllabic m and syllabic n.

1.47.14 - 2013-12-03

• Support building with the extended Chinese and Russian dictionary data.

1.47.13 - 2013-10-22

updated languages:

• om (Oromo)

1.47.12 - 2013-10-12

• Added the NVDA voice variants.
• Do not crash if espeak_SetPunctuationList is called with a NULL punctuation list.
• Fix a segfault in GetTranslatedPhonemeString.

new languages:

• om (Oromo)

build:

• Support the --with-async configure option.
• Support the --with-sonic configure option.
• Support the --with-mbrola configure option.
• Support the --with-klatt configure option.
• Support the --with-sada configure option.
• More build improvements.

1.46.23 - 2012-09-11

• Converted the build to use autotools.

1.46.11 - 2011-12-31

• Support building all the voice dictionaries.
• More build improvements.

1.43.46 - 2010-06-28

• Initial build changes to make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.