espeak 1.47.11

.npmignore

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+*.exe
+*.html
+dictsource
+docs
+src
+platforms
+espeak-data
+speak.full.js
+

AUTHORS

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ authors, who have all licensed their contributions to speak.js under the
 licensing terms detailed in License.txt.
 
 * Alon Zakai <alonzakai@gmail.com> (copyright owned by Mozilla Foundation)
-
+* Christopher de Beer <christopherdebeer@gmail.com>

ChangeLog.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,205 @@
+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 <break time=""> 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=<directory>  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 <mark> and <prosody> were ignored if they were inside a multiword group (defined in *_list). Fixed.
+
+SSML. Don't omit <marker> 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 <emphasis>, increase volume for "strong" and "x-strong".
+
+SSML Fix bug where </emphasis> was ignored at end of clause.
+
+SSML: Fix problem where speed can get set to minimum after a <mark> 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).
@@ -12,7 +214,7 @@ Fix problem of punctuation character announcement repeated at the start of the n
 
 Fixed crash due to large numbers of box-drawing characters in text input.
 
-Fixed phoneme translation of 't' sounds for US-English voices.
+Fixed mbrola phoneme translation of 't' sounds for US-English voices.
 
 
 espeak 1.45.03  22.Mar.2011
@@ -233,89 +435,3 @@ HTML tags should not insert a space when they are removed.  This could cause a b
 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.

README.markdown

@@ -3,15 +3,12 @@ speak.js
 
 A port of the eSpeak speech synthesizer from C++ to JavaScript using Emscripten.
 
-Enables text-to-speech on the web using only JavaScript and HTML5.
+Enables text-to-speech on the web using only JavaScript and HTML5. or within Node.js as a module.
 
-**Online demo**: http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html
+Note: This is an official active fork of a following original project
 
-Note: An active fork of this project is at
+  https://github.com/kripken/speak.js
 
-  https://github.com/katsuyan/speak.js
-
-  Check it out!
 
 Usage
 -----
@@ -25,13 +22,9 @@ Very simple! Do this:
    (and make sure you have speakClient.js available, as well as
    speakWorker.js and speakGenerator.js)
 
- * Add a div with an audio element called 'audio' in your html body,
+ * Call speak.play() to say stuff in JavaScript
 
-      `<div id="audio"></div>`
-
- * Call speak() to say stuff in JavaScript
-
-      `speak('hello world!')`
+      `speak.play('hello world!');`
 
 See helloworld.html for a simple 'hello world', and demo.html for
 a more detailed example.
@@ -42,7 +35,7 @@ Options
 
 You can also specify some options with calling speak(), by doing
 
-      `speak('hello world', { option1: value1, option2: value2 .. })`
+      `speak.play('hello world', { option1: value1, option2: value2 .. }, onended)`
 
 available options are:
 
@@ -55,12 +48,13 @@ available options are:
  * wordgap: Additional gap between words in 10 ms units (default: 0)
  * noWorker: Do not use a web worker (see below in 'Architecture')
 
-For example
+In addition, you can pass a callback function which will be called at the end of speech.
 
-      `speak('hello world', { pitch: 100 })`
+For example
 
-will talk in a very high-pitched voice.
+      `speak.play('hello world', { pitch: 100 }, function(){console.log('completed!');});`
 
+will talk in a very high-pitched voice and output 'completed!' on the console at the completion.
 
 Architecture
 ------------
@@ -102,5 +96,5 @@ need to build a custom version of speak.js:
 You then need to call speak() with the `voice` option that tells it to use the
 right voice for your language. For example, for French this should work:
 
-      `speak('boulanger', { voice: 'fr' })`
+      `speak.play('boulanger', { voice: 'fr' });`