# 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.