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gnome-speech 0.4.25:
* Respin due to use of incompatible libtool for 0.4.24.
gnome-speech 0.4.24
* drivers/espeak/espeakspeaker.c: Fix for bug #571217 - espeak driver
parameter ranges do not match espeak
* gnome-speech/speaker.c, drivers/eloquence/eloquencespeaker.c: Fix
for bug #560439 - GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated GLib symbols. NOTE:
I don't have the eloquence package (it's a commercial system), so I
was unable to verify the changes made to that file.
gnome-speech 0.4.23:
* drivers/espeak/Makefile.am Fix for bug #568786 - Trivial build patch
(Vincent Untz)
* test/test-speech.c: Fix for bug #563577 - GNOME Goal: Clean up GLib
and GTK+ includes (Luis Menina)
gnome-speech 0.4.22:
* drivers/swift/swiftsynthesisdriver.c: fix for bug #559583 - Swift
synthesis driver causes Python client to get "TypeError: could not
demarshal return value" on call to getAllVoices.
gnome-speech 0.4.21:
* drivers/espeak/espeaksynthesisdriver.c: fix for bug #545896 - eSpeak
segmentation fault.
gnome-speech 0.4.20:
* drivers/espeak/*: fix for bug 535493 - eSpeak driver can
block. The fix adds a list mechanism to handle utterances
to be spoken and then processes them on the gidle thread.
Also raised the maximum speech rate for eSpeak.
gnome-speech 0.4.19:
* configure.in: be smarter about automatically finding espeak
* drivers/espeak/Makefile.am: remove libstdc++. It is not needed
and makes the Solaris build fail.
gnome-speech 0.4.18:
* Fix for bug 508439 - Gnome speech Espeak driver will not compile
with Espeak 1.30 (Thanks David Csercsics!!)
gnome-speech 0.4.17:
* Fix for bug 503058 - Swift driver build failure on Solaris. With
this fix, Cepstral/Swift works on Solaris Express Community Edition
build 79.
gnome-speech 0.4.16:
* Fix for bug 458990 - Update max speech rate in eSpeak driver
(Gilles Casse)
gnome-speech 0.4.15:
* Fix for bug 454954 - Compatibility with eSpeak >=1.27 (Gilles Casse)
gnome-speech 0.4.14:
* Fix for bug 443989 - when building Java platform support, add -cp
option to work in the presence of environments where CLASSPATH might
be set
* Fix for bug 448184 - viavoicesynthesisdriver.c:718: warning: control
reaches end of non-void function (Mario Lang)
gnome-speech 0.4.13:
* Fix for bug 440169 - swift driver hardcodes voice language to en_US
(Mario Lang)
gnome-speech 0.4.12:
* Fix for bug 437867 to support festival languages without dialects.
gnome-speech 0.4.11:
* Fix for bug 416586 to call espeak_Info for eSpeak version
information (Gilles Casse)
gnome-speech 0.4.10:
* Fix for bug 409573 to have eSpeak driver also look for LANG when
determining the default language. (Gilles Casse)
gnome-speech 0.4.9:
* Fix for bug 398916 to help select the Viavoice Chinese voices. Also
fixed a memory leak with the driver. (Gilles Casse)
* Fix for bug 399512 to handle config parameters better. (Leonardo Boshell)
* Fix for bug 403763 to include math library when building driver
for Swift. (Willie Walker)
gnome-speech 0.4.8:
* Brand new driver for eSpeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net).
Many many thanks to Gilles Casse for his contribution here!!!
* Fix for bug 321658 to allow ibmtts is unable to select/change voice
of a different language. Many many thanks to Gilles Casse for his
contribution here!!!
gnome-speech 0.4.7:
* Add support for Cepstral Swift driver. There are known problems
with this support. In particular, there are audio artifacts
(chirps and pops) when speech is interrupted. We have a support
request into Cepstral for help with this: Support Ticket #6297.
gnome-speech 0.4.6:
* RFE 350389: add in Loquendo driver from ONCE (Thanks Juan Ramon
Jimenez from ONCE!).
gnome-speech 0.4.5:
* Fix for bug 353322: fix crash/hang in DECtalk synthesis driver.
gnome-speech 0.4.4:
* Fix for bug 326818: escape the \ character so it is not interpreted
as a line continuation character by the festival shell.
* Fix for bug 352165: use "-f" flag to rm files when doing a clean.
gnome-speech 0.4.3:
* Fix for bug 349730: do not abort festival synthesis driver when it
cannot convert a string to the encoding expected by the voice being
used by festival.
gnome-speech 0.4.2:
* Fix for bug 347357: convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 before sending text to
DECtalk engine
* Fix for bug 348240: convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 before sending text to
IBMTTS (a.k.a., ViaVoice) engine (thanks Javier!)
* Fix for bug 347124: remove LT_VERSION_INFO since it is only available
for libraries (thanks dmacks!)
gnome-speech 0.4.1:
* Partial fix for bug 144457: add "punctuation mode" parameter to DECtalk
synthesis driver. The supported modes are as follows:
0 = none
1 = some
2 = most
3 = all
* Fix for bug 341405: don't core dump if festival is not installed on
machine.
* Fix for bug 141516: allow character encoding to be dynamically
determined from the voice. Credit to Milan Zamazal as well for the
creation of the "coding" attribute convention for festival voices.
* Fix for bug 341990: eliminate compilation warning in festival synthesis
driver.
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gnome-speech 0.4.0:
* Fix for bug 321216: support UTF-8 encoding (Chaitanya Kamisetty)
* Fix for bug 337151: quit when the festival process dies (Remus Draica)
* Fix for bug 341744: turn phoneme mode off in dectalk driver (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 332250: dectalk driver compilation warnings (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 332247: dectalk driver can hang on exit (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 329444: add speech dispatcher driver (Hynek Hanke)
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gnome-speech 0.3.9:
* Fix for bug 319421: ibmtts hardcoded to en_US locale (Bill Abt)
* For for bug 319875: Add eciInsertIndex to viavoice driver (Bill Abt)
* Fix for bug 320013: Add more parameters to ibmtts driver (Bill Abt)
* Fix for build problem on Solaris (Rich Burridge)
* Fix for bug 142354: FreeTTS driver exits when refcount goes to 0 instead
of living forever (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 313652: FreeTTS build fix (Bernard Leak)
* Fix for bug 319980: test-speech now uses selected gender instead of
hardcoding to male (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 314736: Cygwin ports patch (Cygwin Ports maintainer)
* Fix for bug 314840: Corrected the use of the rate and pitch
parameters for ibmtts driver so that they are absolute and not
relative values (IBM)
* Provide different method for finding the Java virtual machine for
freetts-synthesis-driver (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 319168: FreeTTS streaming audio player could not be used
(Willie Walker)
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gnome-speech 0.3.8:
* Fix for bug 305489: Festival driver in gnome-speech-0.3.7 seg faults
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug 308468: #include <sys/socket.h>, and do not declare
variable after statement (Behdad Esfahbod)
* FreeTTS driver now says "FreeTTS synthesis driver running..." instead
of saying it is *not* running (Willie Walker)
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gnome-speech 0.3.7:
* FreeTTS driver now includes and uses a user_addenda.txt pronunciation
lexicon addenda to support characters from the extended ISO8859-1 character
set as well as the unicode currency block - bug 163805 (Willie Walker)
* Automatic detection of voices for festival driver - part of bug 141516
(Fernando Herrera)
* Fixes for bug 301086 (Willie Walker), bug 141516 (Bill Haneman and Fernando
Herrera), bug 169805 (Bill Haneman), and bug 167810 (Oana Serb)
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gnome-speech 0.3.6:
* Festival driver now supports callbacks and end-of-speech markers - thanks to
Oana Serb of BAUM Retec.
* FreeTTS driver is less intolerant of nonstandard JAVA environments at
build time (Callum McKenzie).
* IBM ViaVoice driver updated to work with new Linux ViaVoice runtime
(Marc Mulcahy)
* Critical fixes for FreeTTS 1.2 driver which could cause speech to fail
(Marc)
gnome-speech 0.3.5:
* Improved locale matching when creating a speaker -- thanks billh
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gnome-speech 0.3.4:
* Better LOCALE matching for getVoices queries,
for FreeTTS, Theta, and DecTalk drivers.
* CLASSPATH fix for FreeTTS driver.
* Use volume range of 0 - 100% instead of 0 - 1.0, for
consistency, in FreeTTS Speakers.
* FreeTTS driver getVoices() command now works (formerly,
it seems only getAllVoices() worked for FreeTTS.)
* Better error reporting in test-speech.
* test-speech now asks for gender and locale choices
before presenting voice list.
gnome-speech 0.3.3:
* FreeTTS driver now requires FreeTTS 1.2beta.
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gnome-speech 0.3.2:
* Drivers now take into account the language specified in getVoices
and the createSpeaker calls.
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gnome-speech 0.3.1:
* Fix some driver strings to fix activation errors.
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gnome-speech 0.3.0:
* Updated VoiceInfo structure such that language is a string rather
than an int.
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gnome-speech 0.2.8:
* Fixed FreeTTS build issues
* Fixed compiler warnings
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gnome-speech 0.2.7:
* Fixed libtool versioning
* Enhanced build checks
* Fixed bad escaping of strings in the Festival driver.
* Fixed refcounting issue in the FreTTS driver.
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gnome-speech 0.2.6:
* More build fixes.
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gnome-speech 0.2.5:
* Fix build.
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What's new in gnome-speech 0.2.4:
* Driver added for Cepstral Theta.
* All existing drivers were rewritten to share one instance of the TTS
engine among all GNOME Speech Speaker objects created by the driver.
Drivers which were rewritten include:
* IBM Viavoice
* Fonix DECTalk
* Festival
* FreeTTS
* All drivers were hacked to shutdown the server executeable when the
SynthesisDriver object is destroyed.
* Memory leaks were fixed in test-speech. Also two more tests were
added:
* Interrupt test-- tests speech interruption
* Wait test-- tests the driver's ability to wait for speech to
finish.
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What's new in gnome-speech 0.2.1:
* Improvements to prevent installation of .server files for drivers that aren't built.
* Work with newer autotools.
* Added a new driver for Eloquence, DECTalk.
* Build fixes and bug fixes :-)
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