Change Log

1. espeak-ng
2. espeak

espeak-ng

The espeak-ng project is a fork of the espeak project.

1.51 (In Development)

• 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)
• Replace ieee80.c by a free software implementation (Ulrich Müller)

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: * ar (Arabic) – king-dahmanus * 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 * eo (Esperanto) – AlsoScratch * 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, Andiv06 * zh (Chinese) – Silas S. Brown, Rongcui Dong, Icenowy Zheng, Juho Hiltunen

new languages: * be (Belarusian) – Sergei B * 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 * lb (Luxembourgish) – Marco Barnig, 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

1.50 - 2019-11-29

• Add a --disable-rpath option to prevent libtool hardcoding rpaths in the executable.
• Renamed the hy-arevmda language to hyw, following the 2018-03-30 change to the BCP 47 language subtag registry making the newly registered hyw language code the preferred value for hy-arevmda. This change keeps support for detecting the hy-arevela and hy-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

1.49.2 - 2017-09-24

• 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 now ja).
• 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)

1.49.1 - 2017-01-21

• 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: use en 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.)

1.49.0 - 2016-09-10

• 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 and espeak-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 and status 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 to espeak-ng.
• Renamed speak to speak-ng.
• Use the libespeak-ng API in speak-ng using a shared implementation with espeak-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)

espeak

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:

1. Make it easier to build espeak on POSIX systems.
2. Keep track of the source code releases that differed from the releases in the subversion repository.

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.