[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by sthibaul:
#686 inform that --stdin flag reads multi-line text and then speaks it after

From http://bugs.debian.org/946029:

“There's two ways to have espeak read from stdin: - running it with no arguments, which makes it speak every line; and - running it with the --stdin flag, which makes it read a text file (viz. multi-line text) from stdin until the EOF, and then speak it all at once.

I found out the difference between the two because, I wanted to pipe edbrowse, an interactive program, to espeak to make it speak out every new line of output -so I read the manpage of espeak for flags to use stdin, since some other programs in Debian require a flag.

I figured out after a while to not use that flag but, it'd be nice if the manpage added a sentence or two in the description for the --stdin flag mentioning this different behaviour from no-argument espeak.”

[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by surfer0627:
#685 Voice Chinese (Mandarin): some characters are reported two times

Some characters are reported two times, E.G. 汐止區 (reported: 汐止止區)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open eSpeak NG testing page.
2. Choose language Chinese (Mandarin).
3. Test:

汐止區 貸款 媒體 國立臺北教育大學 瀏覽模式 徵聘 註解 矯正機關 徵收 紓解 恭喜 鬆綁 拓展 澄清

[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Pull Request #682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)
By ronaldaug:

Thanks, the sound is a bit clear now.

[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by surfer0627:
#685 Voice Chinese (Mandarin): some characters are reported two times

Some characters are reported two times, E.G. 汐止區 (reported: 汐止止區)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Oopen eSpeak NG testing page.
2. Choose language Chinese (Mandarin).
3. Test:

汐止區 貸款 媒體 國立臺北教育大學 瀏覽模式 徵聘 註解 矯正機關 徵收 紓解 恭喜 鬆綁 拓展 澄清

[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by sthibaul:
#684 espeak-ng-data/lang/tai/shn shouldn't have +x

espeak-ng-data/lang/tai/shn currently has +x mode, while it's not a script, it shouldn't have +x.

[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by sthibaul:
#683 1.50 tarball contains symlinks instead of copies of autostuff files

In the 1.50 tarball (https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/releases/download/1.50/espeak-ng-1.50.tgz), the INSTALL, compile, config.guess, config.sub, depcomp, install-sh ltmain.sh, and missing files are only symlinks to /usr/share/{automake-1.15,libtool}. They are thus completely useless on a system which does not exactly have these installed.

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[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Issue #683 1.50 tarball contains symlinks instead of copies of autostuff files
By sthibaul:

The tarball even contains config.log, Makefile, etc. These are not really supposed to be included in an upstream tarball. The make dist target of automake should be used instead to produce the release tarballs.

[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Pull Request #682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)
By valdisvi:

Now this pull request is merged in main espeak-ng repository also.

I'm happy to announce that we have released eSpeak NG 1.50!
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/releases/tag/1.50

Many thanks to:

Reece H. Dunn
Eigeldinger Simon
Karl Eick
Ejaz Shah
Anh Hoang Nguyen
Juho Hiltunen
chrislm
Ronald Aug
Christo de Klerk
Min Maung
Anh Hoang Nguyen

and all other contributors of the eSpeak NG project!

Valdis

5 New Commits:

[espeak-ng:master] By Ronald Aug <saisenfa@...>:
ef24854b6e57: Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?)

Modified: dictsource/shn_rules

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[espeak-ng:master] By Ronald Aug <saisenfa@...>:
faaf49b153ff: Change ​ေ sound

Modified: dictsource/shn_rules

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[espeak-ng:master] By Ronald Aug <saisenfa@...>:
61bbffd0eca1: add rule for ႂ် sound

Modified: dictsource/shn_rules

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[espeak-ng:master] By Valdis Vitolins <valdis.vitolins@...>:
b47a75f4e401: eSpeak NG 1.51-dev

Modified: CHANGELOG.md
Modified: android/jni/include/config.h
Modified: configure.ac
Modified: src/windows/config.h

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[espeak-ng:master] By Valdis Vitolins <valdis.vitolins@...>:
ca65812ac601: Merge pull request #682

Modified: dictsource/shn_rules

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[espeak-ng/espeak-ng] Pull request closed by valdisvi:

#682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)

Add Rules

• [x] single component
• [x] pause characters
• [x] ဢ (?)

[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Pull Request #682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)
By valdisvi:

I have merged it into my repository and rebuilt it on online test site, but have not pushed it to espeak-ng repository, because I'm waiting for Windows builds for 1.50 release.

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[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Pull Request #682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)
By valdisvi:

I have merged it into my repository and rebuilt it on online test site, but have not pushed it to espeak-ng repository, because I'm waiting for Windows builds for 1.50 release.

[espeak-ng/espeak-ng] Pull request updated by ronaldaug:

#682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)

Add Rules

• [x] single component
• [x] pause characters
• [x] ဢ (?)

[espeak-ng/espeak-ng] Pull request updated by ronaldaug:

#682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)

Add Rules

• [x] single component
• [x] pause characters
• [x] ဢ (?)

[espeak-ng/espeak-ng] Pull request opened by ronaldaug:

#682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?)

Add Rules

• [x] single component
• [x] pause characters
• [x] ဢ (?)

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[espeak-ng/espeak-ng] Pull request updated by ronaldaug:

#682 Added rules for single consonant, pauses and ဢ (?) (Shan)

Add Rules

• [x] single component
• [x] pause characters
• [x] ဢ (?)

[espeak-ng] rhdunn pushed new tag 1.50.

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[espeak-ng] created new tag 1.50.

[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Issue #681 Short pause and independent consonants for Shan
By valdisvi:

Single letters

shn_list file is for pronunciation of words and symbols with simple, exact matching rules. E.g. for English pronunciation of single letters are described in line 33 to 59. E.g. for single ၵ:

ၵ   kaa5

But, if you have single letter words, then it is better to describe pronunciation in shn_rules file:

.group ၵ // U+1075
          ၵ       k    // default pronunciation
       _) ၵ (_    kaa5 // single letter word
       ...             // other rules

Currently there is no rule for ၶ character. Just add it in shn_list and/or shn_rules file depending on complexity of rules. For example, following rule in shn_rules file:

.group ၶ
    ၶ   khaa5

Pauses

If handling pauses will not require much of different rules, then you can add "no character" group at the end of shn_rules file:

.group // note no character for the group
  ၊  _
  ။  _:

If pause characters may need different pronunciations, depending on position, create another group

.group ၊
  ၊  _   // default rule
  ...    // other rules
.group ။
  ။  _:  // default rule
  ...    // other rules

eSpeak online

If you test it as anonymous user, then you use version build by me, what I do occasionally. Then you can check how old build is by looking on last commit. If you test it as registered user, then you can update your project and rebuild it with new settings yourself as it is described in the guide.

[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Issue #681 Short pause and independent consonants for Shan
By valdisvi:

Single letters

shn_list file is for pronunciation of words and symbols with simple, exact matching rules. E.g. for English pronunciation of single letters are described in line 33 to 59. E.g. for single ၵ:

ၵ   kaa5

But, if you have single letter words, then it is better to describe pronunciation in shn_rules file:

.group ၵ // U+1075
          ၵ       k    // default pronunciation
       _) ၵ (_    kaa5 // single letter word
       ...             // other rules

Currently there is no rule for ၶ character. Just add it in shn_list and/or shn_rules file depending on complexity of rules. For example, following rule in shn_rules file:

.group ၶ
    ၶ   khaa5

Pauses

If handling pauses will not require much of different rules, then you can add "no character" group at the end of shn_rules file:

.group // note no character for the group
  ၊  _
  ။  _:

If pause characters may need different pronunciations, depending on position, create another group

.group ၊
  ၊  _   // default rule
  ...    // other rules
.group ။
  ။  _:  // default rule
  ...    // other rules

1 New Commit:

[espeak-ng:master] By Valdis Vitolins <valdis.vitolins@...>:
b702b03996de: eSpeak NG 1.50

Modified: CHANGELOG.md
Modified: android/jni/include/config.h
Modified: configure.ac
Modified: src/windows/config.h

[espeak-ng:master] New Comment on Issue #275 Option to keep punctuation signs in IPA output ?
By nmstoker:

Thanks Ben. It sounds like your pre/post processing is the best option given the difficulties that adapting the internal representation seem to present. I must've overlooked virtual phonemes - it's great that they don't appear to impact the parsing.

As you say, any comment from the maintainers/experts would be welcome :slightly_smiling_face:

[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by arnaudschd:
#678 No voice on Windows10

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[espeak-ng:master] Issue #678 No voice on Windows10 closed by arnaudschd.

[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by ronaldaug:
#681 Short pause and independent consonants for Shan

This isn't actually an issue, just a question and request.

1 - Short pauses

I would like to add these pauses characters, but I'm a bit confused. Should I add them into ** shn_list ** or ** shn_rules **? ၊ Would be a short break like _ and ။ would be a little long break like _:.

2 - Independent consonant

How can I add a rule for a single consonant without a prefix or suffix? I am worried that it will ruin the original ၵ (ka) rule. If it is a single character ၵ should sound kaa5 ၶ should sound khaa5

3 - Speak online

Could @valdisvi recompile the source on https://odo.lv/Espeak, I tested the Shan language and it seems the sound wasn't updated as a master project?

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[espeak-ng:master] New Issue Created by ronaldaug:
#681 Short pause and independent consonants for Shan

This isn't actually an issue, just a question and request.

1 - Short pauses

I would like to add these pauses characters, but I'm a bit confused. Should I add them into shn_list or shn_rules ? ၊ Would be a short break like _ and ။ would be a little long break like _:.

2 - Independent consonant

How can I add a rule for a single consonant without a prefix or suffix? I am worried that it will ruin the original ၵ (ka) rule. If it is a single character ၵ should sound kaa5 ၶ should sound khaa5

3 - Speak online

Could @valdisvi recompile the source on https://odo.lv/Espeak? I tested the Shan language and it seems the sound wasn't updated as a master project.