espeak 1.43.03  (bug fixes)

Fix crash when embedded control codes are followed by numbers of 5 or more digits.
Fix lang=hu,  First character of an abbreviation is missed after an ordinal number (eg."2. cd")
Fix XML tag not recognized after "..." when announce punctuation is enabled.
Fix lang=zh-yue, 'p' 't' 'k' after a vowel give a long pause.
Fix lang=ru, "o" missing in unstressed syllables.

espeak 1.43.02

Language improvements including Danish.

Fix: "  50000" with leading spaces was spoken as "50".

Don't consider multiple spaces as a thousands separator (eg. "2  000").

Fixed phoneme [n^] for klatt synthesizer.

Lang=Hungarian, don't allow dot as thousands separator.



espeak 1.43

New format for phoneme definitions, including conditional statements for more flexibility.

Added voice variants which use the Klatt synthesizer rather than the eSpeak synthesizer: klatt, klatt2, klatt3

Fixes to the Klatt synthesizer.
Updated phoneme data for use in the Klatt synthesizer.


Allow optional .txt filename suffix for *_rules and *_list files.

HTML tags should not insert a space when they are removed.  This could cause a break inside a word (eg. <b>, <font>).

Fixes to correctly recognise space as a thousands separator in some languages.




eSpeak 1.42

Improvements to languages including Hungarian, Portuguese, Tamil

Changes to intonation when announcing punctuation (--punct option).

Recognise key names in <say-as interpret-as="tts:key"> and allow translation
into the current language.

*_list files, added attribute $hasdot for abbreviations.  The rule only applies
if the word is followed by a dot.

SSML (as used by Speech Dispatcher), fix problems where a tag after a dot meant
that end-of-sentence and ordinal numbers were not recognized correctly.




eSpeak 1.41

Added language:  da Danish

Language: it Italian, added dictsource/it_listx with data for stress positions and open/close "e" and "o" vowels.

Languages: pt, it:  Fixed a crash when speaking some numbers.

Fixed numbers greater than 1000000 for Indian languages.

-m option now ignores XML comments.

-b option now has a value (4) to specify 16 bit character input text.

-g option (word gap) fixed for Windows.

--punct option. Fix some unnecessary pauses when speaking punctuation names.

SSML: fixed bug where <mark> was ignored before some punctuation characters.

Changed the format of formant data in espeak-data/phondata, to add extra parameters for use by a Klatt synthesizer.  Changed the formant dialogue in espeakedit to include these.

F7 and F8 formants are now fixed at 7800Hz and 90000Hz.

"Text position" in callback events is no longer limited to 16 bits.

Fixed problems with word-length indications in callback events.

Some changes to allow compilation on WinCE/Windows Mobile, with notes in platforms/windowsMobile.

*_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.




eSpeak 1.40

Added languages:
lv Latvian, ca Catalan, sq Albanian, hy Armenian.

Adjusted the tonal quality of the speech to reduce the harshness slightly.

Language improvements include:
English/US, Esperanto.

Windows SAPI5 installer: Remove the limit on the number of eSpeak voices which can be installed.

-m command option: Ignore text within <script> and <style> tag pairs.

-v command option: If the parameter is not a voice file name, look it up as a language name (specified inside voice files).

Added command option --path.  Specified the path of the espeak-data directory.

Added command option --phonout.  Specifies output of mbrola phoneme data, and phoneme data from -x and -X command options, to a file rather than stdout.

Implemented visemes on the SAPI5 interface.

Fix some sound channel lock-ups.

Reduced pause when announcing punctuation characters.

Add voice variant: "fast" to allow experimentation with faster speaking speeds.

Removed the use of C++ Classes.