- added fix-configure-1171.patch to fix configure step
- remove no longer needed patches:
- espeak-ng-1.49.2-fix_no_return_nonvoid-in-configure.patch
- espeak-ng-1.50-fix_gcc10_no_common.patch
- espeak-ng-1.50-fix_gcc10_no_common_2.patch
- update to version 1.51:
- 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
- cmn (Mandarin) -- Silas S. Brown, Rongcui Dong, Icenowy Zheng, 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
- py (Pyash) -- Andrii Logan Zvorygin
- shn (Shan Tay Yai) -- ronaldaug
- tr (Turkish) -- boracasli98, SeanTolstoyevski
- ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah
- uz (Uzbek) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins, Andiv06
- yue (Cantonese) -- Andiv06
- new languages:
- be (Belarusian) -- Sergei B
- chr (Cherokee) -- Michael Conrad
- cv (Chuvash) -- boracasli98, Valdis Vitolins
- en-us-nyc (English, New York City) -- Richard Calvi
- 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