The espeak-ng project is a fork of the espeak project.
- Add support for speechPlayer.
- Add more tests to check the various parts of espeak-ng.
- Various changes to clean up the codebase (Juho Hiltunen)
- Remove support for l_length_mods language option
- Restructure "option brackets" language option to "brackets" and "bracketsAnnounced"
- Restructure "stressLength" and "stressAdd" language option
- New Language option: "lowercaseSentence" for ending a sentence if a period is followed by a lower case letter
- Add voice variants
- Rename zh to cmn (Mandarin)
- Rename zhy to yue (Cantonese)
- cmn (Mandarin) now assumes all latin characters all English text Use cmn-latn-pinyin for interpreting latin characters as pinyin
- Update list of voice varants for Android application
- Add Chromium extension (guest271314)
bug fixes:
- Fix reading malformed SSML (Christopher Brannon)
- Fix memory allocation (Christopher Brannon)
- Fix building and phoneme compilation (John Bowler)
- Fix build scripts for Android (Peter Vágner, Minas Tirith Citizen)
documentation:
- Add documentation about voice and language options.
- Add documentation about dictionary flags.
updated languages:
- ba (Bashkir) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins, Juho Hiltunen
- de (German) -- Karl Eick, Henry Krumb
- el (Modern Greek) -- Reece Dunn (support for variant Greek letter forms)
- en (English) -- Steven Presser, Ben Talagan
- eu (Basque) -- agonzalezd
- fa (Farsi/Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
- ga (Gaelic (Irish)) Chen, Chien-ting
- grc (Ancient Greek) -- Reece Dunn (support for variant Greek letter forms)
- hak (Hakka Chinese) -- Juho Hiltunen
- haw (Hawaiian) -- Juho Hiltunen
- ka (Georgian) -- Juho Hiltunen
- kok (Konkani) -- Juho Hiltunen
- nb (Norwegian Bokmål) -- Juho Hiltunen
- nci (Classical Nahuatl) -- Juho Hiltunen
- hy (Armenian) -- tigransimonyan
- ia (Interlingua) -- nesrad
- it (Italian) -- Christian Leo
- ja (Japanese) -- fukuen, Juho Hiltunen
- jbo (Lojban) -- Juho Hiltunen, xunsku
- lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- mi (Māori) -- boracasli98
- shn (Shan Tay Yai) -- ronaldaug
- tr (Turkish) -- boracasli98, SeanTolstoyevski
- ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah
- uz (Uzbek) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- zh (Chinese) -- Silas S. Brown, Rongcui Dong, Icenowy Zheng, Juho Hiltunen
new languages:
- chr (Cherokee) -- Michael Conrad
- cv (Chuvash) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- haw (Hawaiian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- he (Hebrew) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- io (Ido) -- José Miguel López, Valdis Vitolins
- ltg (Latgalian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- nog (Nogai) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- piqd (Klingon) -- Valdis Vitolins
- qu (Quechua) -- Valdis Vitolins
- qdb (Lang Belta) -- Da Def, Valdis Vitolins
- qya (Quenya) -- Lucas Werkmeister
- sjn (Sindarin) -- Lucas Werkmeister
- smj (Lule Saami) -- Katri Hiovain, Sebastien Le Maguer
- th (Thai) -- Valdis Vitolins
- tk (Turkmen) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- ug (Uyghur) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- uk (Ukrainian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- Add a
--disable-rpath
option to prevent libtool hardcoding rpaths in the executable. - Renamed the
hy-arevmda
language tohyw
, following the 2018-03-30 change to the BCP 47 language subtag registry making the newly registeredhyw
language code the preferred value forhy-arevmda
. This change keeps support for detecting thehy-arevela
andhy-arevmda
language tags. - Support any length replacement rule strings for the source part of the rule (replacing from the 'source' string to the 'target' string).
- Add more tests to check the various parts of espeak-ng.
- Various changes to clean up the codebase.
- Fix various compiler warnings (
-Winitialized
,-Wmissing-prototypes
,-Wreturn-type
, and-Wunused
).
security:
- Fix several crashes in the emoji support.
- Fix several static analysis issues detected by Coverity Scan.
- Fix several static analysis issues detected by Microsoft Visual C++
/analyze
. oss-fuzz
support for the SSML logic.- Fix running
make check
with-fsanitize=address
(LLVM AddressSanitizer).
documentation:
- document the Kirshenbaum phoneme transcription scheme (used as the basis of espeak phonemes).
- document the X-SAMPA phoneme transcription scheme.
- document the Conlang X-SAMPA phoneme transcription scheme.
emoji:
- Update the emoji to Unicode 11.0.
- Update the emoji translations to CLDR 33.1.
- gd (Scottish Gaelic)
- sd (Sindhi)
- yue (Chinese (Cantonese))
new languages:
- ba (Bashkir) -- tc-dl, Valdis Vitolins
- hak (Hakka Chinese) -- Chen Chien-ting
- ht (Haitian Creole) -- Valdis Vitolins
- kk (Kazakh) -- boracasli14, Valdis Vitolins
- py (Pyash) -- Logan Streondj
- quc (K'iche') -- Valdis Vitolins
- ru-lv (Russian Latvia) -- Valdis Vitolins
- shn (Shan Tay Yai) -- ronaldaug
- uz (Uzbek) -- Valdis Vitolins
updated languages:
- af (Afrikaans) -- Christo de Klerk
- ar (Arabic) -- Valdis Vitolins, Mark Readdie, Hesham Assabahi
- cmn (Chinese Mandarin) -- materia-cccp
- de (German) -- Reece Dunn, Karl Eick
- en (English) -- Reece Dunn
- fa (Farsi/Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
- fi (Finnish) -- Juho Hiltunen
- fr (French) -- Shallowmallow, Karl Eick, maiido, Reece Dunn
- ku (Kurdish) -- rojanu
- it (Italian) -- chrislm
- lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- my (Myanmar/Burmese) -- Min Maung
- ru (Russian) -- Valdis Vitolins, Reece Dunn
- sd (Sindhi) -- Ejaz Shah
- ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah
- vi (Vietnamese) -- Anh Hoang Nguyen
- Provide more validation when reading phoneme tables and voice/language files.
- Removed support for phoneme equivalence tables. These were disabled in the French and German language files.
- Allow pre- as well as post-jump rules in dictionary files.
- Support building the Windows version with Visual Studio 2013.
- Use language and accent names consistently across the language files.
- Group the encoding handling into a single place with a clean interface and tests.
- Support all ISO 8859 encodings.
- Support for multi-word text replacements in language dictionaries.
- Support compiling
_emoji
dictionary files if present.
bug fixes:
- Fix running
make clean ; make
. - Fix reading stdin buffers larger than 1000.
- Fixed various language and parent BCP 47 codes (
jp
is nowja
). - Fixed several crashes and bugs in
espeak_SetVoiceByName/Properties
.
new languages:
- bpy (Bishnupriya Manipuri) -- Vardhan
- fr-CH (French (Switzerland)) -- Claude Beazley
- kok (Konkani) -- Vardhan
- mi (Māori) -- Graham Oliver
- sd (Sindhi, Arabic script) -- Vardhan, Ejaz Shah
updated languages:
- af (Afrikaans) -- Christo de Klerk
- de (German) -- Valdis Vitolins
- du (Dutch) -- Leonard de Ruijter
- en (English) -- Reece Dunn. Thanks to Kendell Clark for identifying mispronunciations.
- fa (Farsi/Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
- fr (French) -- Valdis Vitolins; Reece Dunn
- gu (Gujarati) -- Vardhan
- hi (Hindi) -- Vardhan
- it (Italian) -- chrislm
- ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
- lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- mk (Macedonian) -- Reece Dunn. Updated the romanization support:
- Don't map đ and ć to Serbian ђ and ћ (use Macedonian ѓ and ќ instead).
- Support additional romanizations: ISO 9, BGN/PCGN, Cadastre, and MJMS/SSO.
- mr (Marathi) -- Vardhan
- or (Oriya) -- Vardhan
- ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah
Unicode Emoji support (from the Unicode Emoji 5.0, and CLDR 31.0.1 data files):
- af (Afrikaans)
- am (Amharic)
- ar (Arabic)
- az (Azerbaijani)
- bg (Bulgarian)
- bn (Bengali)
- bs (Bosnian)
- ca (Catalan)
- cs (Czech)
- cy (Welsh)
- da (Danish)
- de (German)
- el (Greek)
- en (English) -- American
- es (Spanish)
- et (Estonian)
- eu (Basque)
- fa (Farsi/Persian)
- fi (Finnish)
- fr (French)
- ga (Irish Gaelic)
- gu (Gujarati)
- hi (Hindi)
- hr (Croatian)
- hu (Hungarian)
- hy (Armenian)
- id (Indonesian)
- is (Icelandic)
- it (Italian)
- ja (Japanese)
- ka (Georgian)
- kn (Kannada)
- ko (Korean)
- ky (Kyrgyz)
- lt (Lithuanian)
- lv (Latvian)
- mk (Macedonian)
- ml (Malayalam)
- mr (Marathi)
- ms (Malay)
- my (Myanmar/Burmese)
- ne (Nepali)
- nl (Dutch)
- or (Oriya)
- pa (Punjabi)
- pl (Polish)
- pt (Portuguese) -- Brazil
- ro (Romanian)
- ru (Russian)
- si (Sinhala)
- sk (Slovak)
- sl (Slovenian)
- sq (Albanian)
- sr (Serbian)
- sv (Swedish)
- sw (Swahili)
- ta (Tamil)
- te (Telugu)
- tr (Turkish)
- ur (Urdu)
- vi (Vietnamese)
- zh (Chinese)
- Vim syntax support for rule files.
- Replace
ieee80.c
with the implementation at http://www.realitypixels.com/turk/opensource/ToFromIEEE.c.txt for Debian open source license compliance. - Documentation updates.
- Emscripten support.
- Merged the Android port into the main espeak-ng codebase.
- Extend
--compile-phoneme
to support specifying the source directory for phoneme files. - Support using any directory as the data home, not just
espeak-ng-data
. - Don't install the
default
voice: useen
as the default voice.
NOTE: The merger of the Android code is currently experimental. It is missing support for recognising Unicode characters.
bug fixes:
- Fix
.Lnn
rule groups to allow groups above 62. - Fix reporting the eSpeak NG version in the
--version
string and Windows installer. - Fix a crash when calling
LoadDictionary
when using clang. - Threading fixes and Mac OSX portability for the fifo and event code.
- Fixes for running the spect code on big-endian architectures.
- Fix determining the voice directory when installing the 32-bit Windows binaries on a 64-bit Windows system.
- Fix a regression with the saved parameter logic.
- Reduce the default buffer length to 60mS to improve latency.
- Don't override buffer length when using espeak-ng for audio.
- Fix detecting doubled consonants when using Unicode characters.
- Fix speaking
1,,2
, etc. in languages that use,
as a decimal separator.
updated languages:
- af (Afrikaans) -- Christo de Klerk
- en (English) -- Valdis Vitolins
- fa (Farsi/Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
- it (Italian) -- chrislm
- ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
- lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
- tr (Turkish) -- Valdis Vitolins
new languages:
- ar (Arabic) -- Taha Zerrouki
- jp (Japanese) -- Reece Dunn (NOTE: Hiragana and Katakana only.)
- 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.
- Added man files for the
speak-ng
andespeak-ng
command-line programs. - Created a companion espeak-ng API to provide more detailed error codes and provide access to the new espeak-ng functionality.
- Fixed many logic and security issues reported by clang scan-build, Coverity and msvc /analyze.
- Group languages by their language family and use BCP47 compliant names.
- Support for Windows and BSD platforms.
- Removed support for WinCE, MS-DOS and RiscOS.
- Add support for
maintainer
andstatus
field in voice files for tracking voice maintenance. - Vim syntax highlighting for espeak dictionary (list and rules) files.
- Support reading input from named pipes.
- Fix wav file truncation when reading multiline text from stdin or a named pipe.
build:
- Build the code with a C99 compiler, instead of a C++ compiler.
- Provide a pkg-config file (patch by Luke Yelavich).
- Use -fPIC to support sparc/sparc64 architectures.
- Removed the local portaudio header files.
- Use the system's sonic library and header files.
- Output phoneme compilation errors to stderr.
- Generate build failures if building phoneme, intonation or dictionary files contain errors.
- Provide modern Visual Studio project files to build eSpeak NG on Windows, with a WiX-based project to create an MSI installer.
- Use the NetBSD
getopt_long
implementation on Windows.
restructuring:
- Moved the library code to
src/libespeak-ng
. - Renamed
espeak
toespeak-ng
. - Renamed
speak
tospeak-ng
. - Use the
libespeak-ng
API inspeak-ng
using a shared implementation withespeak-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 and approaching portability in a similar way to how libressl handles portability.
- Converted the documentation to markdown.
- Group the Windows and POSIX mbrowrap code to provide the
mbrowrap.h
implementation in a single place. - Replaced the audio APIs with PCAudioLib to improve portability of the audio and to share that across different projects.
- Reworked the synchronous audio to share the code paths with asynchronous audio.
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.
- Improved the error handling within the codebase to report the underlying error where possible.
- Inlined several wrapper methods that were adding little/no value.
updated languages:
- en (English) -- Thanks to Kendell Clark for identifying mispronunciations.
- el (Greek) : improved polytonic Greek support
- es (Spanish) : ChrisLeo (improved intonations)
- fa (Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
- fr (French) -- Thomas Guillory
- ga (Irish Gaelic) -- Jim Regan
- it (Italian) -- ChrisLeo
- lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
new languages:
- gn (Guarani) -- ChrisLeo
- ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
- mb-br2 (Brazillian Portuguese)
- mb-de* (German) : extend support coverage of the German MBROLA voices
- mb-lt1 (Lithuanian) -- embar
- mb-lt2 (Lithuanian) -- embar
- mt (Maltese)
- my (Myanmar/Burmese) -- Min Maung, Lwin Moe
- tn (Setswana)
- tt (Tatar)
The espeak project was developed by Jonathan Duddington.
This history log is for a fork of the espeak project maintained by Reece H. Dunn. This project was designed to:
- Make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.
- Keep track of the source code releases that differed from the releases in the subversion repository.
- Support building the MBROLA voice files.
- mbrola/de6 support for syllabic m and syllabic n.
- Support building with the extended Chinese and Russian dictionary data.
updated languages:
- om (Oromo)
- 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.
- Converted the build to use autotools.
- Support building all the voice dictionaries.
- More build improvements.
- Initial build changes to make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.