phonemizer-2.1

ChangeLog for phonemizer-2.1

• new features

  • Possibility to preserve the punctuation (ignored and silently removed by
    default) in the phonemized output with the new option
    --preserve-punctuation from command line (or the equivalent
    preserve-punctuation from Python API). With the punctuation-marks
    option, one can overload the default marls considered as punctuation.

  • It is now possible to specify the path to a custom espeak or
    festival executable (for instance to use a local installation or to test
    different versions). Either specify the PHONEMIZER_ESPEAK_PATH
    environment variable, the --espeak-path option from command line or use
    the EspeakBackend.set_espeak_path method from the Python API. Similarly
    for festival use PHONEMIZER_FESTIVAL_PATH, --festival-path or
    FestivalBackend.set_festival_path.

  • The --sampa option is now available for espeak (was available only for
    espeak-ng).

  • When using espeak with SAMPA output, some SAMPA phones are corrected to
    correspond to the normalized SAMPA alphabet (espeak seems not to respect
    it). The corrections are language specific. A correction file must be placed
    in phonemizer/share/espeak. This have been implemented only for French
    by now.

• bugfixes

  • parses correctly the version of espeak-ng even for dev versions (e.g.
    1.51-dev).

  • fixed an issue with espeak backend, where multiple phone separators can be
    present at the end of a word, see
    #31.

  • added an additional stress symbol - for espeak.