espeak 1.48.04 06.04.2014 Corrections to languages en, nl, ta (rules, list, and dict files). No other changes from version 1.48.03. No change to program, phoneme data, or other languages. espeak 1.48.03 04.04.2014 Fix bug, use of the command-line "espeakedit --compile" produced phoneme data in which vowels started at full amplitude instead of gradual increase. Fix bug: SSML with values greater than 23 seconds were ignored due to arithmetic overflow. Phoneme definition files: Added new function: ChangeNextPhoneme(). Language changes include: da, en, fa, gu, hu, it, nl, pt, ta Started new language: eu (Basque). *_rules files: Allow $p_alt1, $p_alt2, etc in pre-conditions. The rule matches if the characters before the current point in the word occur as an entry in the *_list file with the corresponding $alt attibute. Added condition $list. This is similar to $p_alt etc, but examines all words in the *_list file which don't have the $only attribute. espeak 1.48.01 02.02.2014 *_rules files: Added rule attribute $noprefix. The rule is not used if a prefix has been removed from the word. Windows: Program changes to enable audio output from Windows DLL. Language options: Added attribute 'dictdialect' to specify en-us voice for words marked with _^_EN. Superscripts and subscripts are spoken as single letters and numbers during normal speech, and with "superscript" and "subscript" also spoken when spelling. API: Change function call espeak_TextToPhonemes(). Klatt synthesizer: Fix parallel formant parameters. Language changes include: af, an, da, en, fa, ga, gu, hu, hy, it, ml, nl, ta, ur, vi. espeak 1.47.10 30.04.2013 Data change only. Revert 't' sound in Spanish to version 1.47.07. espeak 1.47.09 29.04.2013 Bug fix (lookup in *_list occasionally found the wrong word). espeak 1.47.08 26.04.2013 Automatically generate character names for subscript and superscript characters. Use internal ctype data for character codes up to U+024F. Add API function espeak_TextToPhonemes(). Add test language az, Azerbaijani. espeak 1.47.07 18.04.2013 Language data changes only. espeak 1.47.06 15.04.2013 Bug fix for names of non-ascii digits. RISC OS version: Fix for systems which have 44010Hz but not 22050Hz audio. Now runs OK in ARMv7 mode. espeak 1.47.04 02.04.2013 Bug fixes. Phoneme definitions: add conditions prev2PhW(), next3PhW(). Added language: ms (Malay) Command line: --voices= lists the voices in the specified subdirectory. espeak 1.47.03 21.03.2013 Bug fixes. espeak 1.47.01 18.03.2013 Added languages: an Aragonese. fa Farsi. ga Irish. lt Lithuanian. pa Punjabi. Many language improvements, including American English, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Tamil. Command-line program. Added -version option. Command-line program. Added optional value to --ipa option. --ipa=1 adds a 'tie' character to link letters in a multi-letter phoneme name. --ipa=2 adds a zero-width joiner to link letters in a multi-letter phoneme name. Command-line program. -X option now lists the names of attributes from *_list files. Speak the names of Braille Dot characters, U+2800 to U+28FF. Speak names of characters in some non-native alphabets. Automatic switch to a different language for text in non-native alphabets. Improved speaking of text from a non-native alphabet after automatically switching to a different language voice. Break words with characters from different alphabets into separate words. Ignore soft-hyphen (U+00AD) in text. Klatt vioices, improved nasal vowels. espeak-data can be compiled using a different sample rate than the default 22050Hz. eSpeak will then generate speech at that sample rate. Change the structure of the espeak-data/voices directory to use subdirectories for europe, asia, and others. *_rules files. Add suffix option 'm' to allow multiplr suffixes to be removed from a word. *_list files. Allow $text attribute when a text translation is given in a different alphabet. Phoneme definitions. Add NOT operator in conditions. Add prevVowel() and nextPh2W() Ignore UTF8-BOM sequence at the start of phoneme definition files. espeakedit application. Use wxWidgets 2.8 on Linux. Use wxNotebook for prosody and vowel pages. Add an option to compile the phoneme data at a specified sample rate (uses the 'sox' program for the conversion of WAV file data). espeak 1.46.01 22.Nov.2011 Added runtime detection of pulseaudio, with fallback to portaudio if pulse is not running. Use build option "AUDIO=runtime" in the makefile. Fixed crash on re-initializing libespeak. SSML. Commands such as and were ignored if they were inside a multiword group (defined in *_list). Fixed. SSML. Don't omit event for words which are recognized as pairs (such as "of the"). SSML: Keep the original voice variant across SSML xml:lang changes. SSML: Use the original language sub-type (eg. en-sc) when SSML xml:lang changes to a compatible language. SSML , increase volume for "strong" and "x-strong". SSML Fix bug where was ignored at end of clause. SSML: Fix problem where speed can get set to minimum after a tag. SSML: Fixed bug where SSML voice change didn't remember an initially specified Klatt variant. Mbrola: Add support for voices: vz1, mx1, mx2. Mbrola: Amplitude changes now apply also to mbrola voices. Mbrola: "voicing" attribute in mbrola voice files can be sued to adjust the loudness of the mbrola voice. *_list: $combine. Don't combine with the next word if it uses a different language translator. *_list: $dot attribute was ignored for multi-word entries. Phoneme definition files. Phoneme programs. Added condition "isTranslationGiven" to test whether a phoneme has been specified explicitly for a word in *_list. Lang=Hindi: Suppress some [@] vowels. Lang=Spanish, fix missing "y" in numbers such as "21". Lang=EN-US: Don't add 'intrusive r' between phoneme [i@] and a following vowel. lang=EN-US, distinguish phonemes [aI@] and [aI3] (compare "diet", "tired"). espeak 1.45.04 25.Apr.2011 Added language Malayalam (ml). lang=de, Fixed important pronunciation error "sage" etc. Don't speak punctuation names faster at high speeds. lang=ml, recognise "virama + U+200d" (zero-width joiner) to indicte 'chillu' characters. Fix problem of punctuation character announcement repeated at the start of the next sentence after speaking is stopped. Fixed crash due to large numbers of box-drawing characters in text input. Fixed mbrola phoneme translation of 't' sounds for US-English voices. espeak 1.45.03 22.Mar.2011 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. espeak 1.45.02 15.Mar.2011 Only use "sonic" speedup above 450 wpm. lang=Turkish, fix bug, letter uppercase-I-dot was not recognized on Windows. espeak 1.45.01 14.Mar.2011 Added languages: Kannada (kn), Georgian (ka) Many fixes for various languages, including Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Tamil, lang=German. Revert to previous pronunciation of 'r' sounds (from before 1.44). lang=Esperanto. Change prosody. Added "sonic" code (by Bill Cox) to increase the speed of speech after it has been generated by eSpeak. This removes eSpeak's 450 speed limit. Command-line options. Recognize -- which means don't treat following arguments as options. --help also gives the path of the espeak-data directory. SSML Allow single as well as double quotes around strings. Fix bugs in SSML "prosody rate". Mbrola. Look for Mbrola voices also at /usr/share/mbrola/xx/xx 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. Phoneme definitions. New keyword "prevoice": always add murmer before a voiced stop, not only after a vowel. Fixed bug in nextVowel() condition that caused crash. Fixed bug is condition "isRhotic". espeakedit. Try "aplay" and then "play" to play sound. Improved the Tools->Lexicon functions, which generate **_listx data from a list of words and their pronunciations. espeak 1.44.04 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. espeak 1.44.01 Fix crash with very long numbers. Speak very long numbers as individual digits. Unpronouncable word check: Rules for unpronouncable initial letter sequences can now be defined in *_rules files. The unpronouncable word check now stops when an apostrophe is found. Phoneme definitions: Optional second parameter to FMT() statement specifies a percentage amplitude. Added "ipa" statement to specify the IPA name for a phoneme if the default translation is not correct. Add phoneme "equivalents" tables, so that words can be spoken with foreign (eg English) prounuciation rules, but using local phonemes. 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-] Mbrola: Command-line espeak and the libespeak library now call the mbrola program directly, rather than producing phoneme text which must be piped into mbrola. Added --pho command-line option to generate mbrola phoneme information (.pho data). Phoneme output: Add --ipa command-line option to produce phonemes names using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Indicate language changes during phoneme output with: (en) (fr) etc. -X command-line option: Show the matching of multiple-word entries in *_list files. Speak sequences of letters and dots as individual letters and don't speak 'dot' (eg. "u.s.a"). Don't speak punctuation characters inside