0.12.0-rc4

What is new in 0.12.0?

• Add openjtalk module.
• Add socket activation.
• Add language and variant parameters to "list voice" command.
• Add libspeechd-module library for making it simpler to create external spd modules.
• libspeechd: Simplify buffer management.
• Fix use of semaphores on MacOS.
• Fix splitting long UTF-8 sequences.
• Update CLDR to version 45, symbols from orca 45.2, and symbols from NVDA.
• Add spd_fd function to C api.
• Detect module failures from generic module.
• Make the fallback espeak-ng and dummy modules hardcoded.
• Better detect generic module failures to disable them.
• pulse: Use asynchronous API to avoid buffer underruns.
• generic: Make stripping punctuation use locale charset.
• audio: Fix logging from audio modules in server-side audio.
• Sort Baratinoo engine higher.
• espeak-ng-mbrola: Fix mbrola voices with rate different from 22KHz
• Add a run-spd-say script and make run-speechd and run-spd-say able to talk directly.
• server: fix daemon mode on macOS with libao.
• Add initial pipewire support.

0.12.0-rc3 release

What is new in 0.12.0?

• Add openjtalk module.
• Add socket activation.
• Add language and variant parameters to "list voice" command.
• libspeechd: Simplify buffer management.
• Fix use of semaphores on MacOS.
• Fix splitting long UTF-8 sequences.
• Update CLDR to version 44 and symbols from NVDA.
• Add spd_fd function to C api.
• Detect module failures from generic module.
• Make the fallback espeak-ng and dummy modules hardcoded.
• Better detect generic module failures to disable them.
• pulse: Use asynchronous API to avoid buffer underruns.
• generic: Make stripping punctuation use locale charset.

0.12.0-rc2 release

What is new in 0.12.0?

• Add openjtalk module.
• Add socket activation.
• Add language and variant parameters to "list voice" command.
• libspeechd: Simplify buffer management.
• Fix use of semaphores on MacOS.
• Fix splitting long UTF-8 sequences.
• Update CLDR to version 44 and symbols from NVDA.
• Add spd_fd function to C api.

0.12.0-rc1 release

What is new in 0.12.0?

• Add socket activation
• libspeechd: Simplify buffer management.
• Add language and variant parameters to "list voice" command.

0.11.5 release

Version 0.11.5

• Update CLDR to version 43 and symbols from NVDA.
• Fix parsing and emitting space character.
• Reduce espeak buffer size to avoid ssml issues.
• Add --disable-doc.
• Fix spd-conf not being able to set the default module.
• Fix pausing without index.
• ibmtts: Fix parameter reset.
• ibmtts: Disable using the module punctuation by default.

0.11.4 release

What is new in 0.11.4?

• Update CLDR to version 42 and symbols from NVDA.
• Fix audio plugin loading with dlopen.
• Fix atomicity of getting reply in threaded mode.

0.11.3 release

What is new in 0.11.3?

• Fix back DefaultModule configuration.
• pico: Avoid falling to english when passed a bogus voice name.
• espeak: Fix setting voice type.

0.11.2 release

What is new in 0.11.2?

• Fix loading xx-yy locales.
• Various memory leaks fixes.
• Add mimic3 configuration file.
• pico: Fix setting language vs voice.
• Make sure that modules report a list of voices.
• Update CLDR to version 41, symbols from NVDA and orca.
• Allow building without ltdl.
• Re-enable SSML in espeak-ng-mbrola module.

0.11.1 release

What is new in 0.11.1?

• Add SPEECHD_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable.
• Fix listing voices of the default module.

0.11.0 release

What is new in 0.11.0?

• Support playing audio through the server.
• Simplify modules thanks to this.
• modules: Add support for loading from user's .local/libexec/speech-dispatcher.
• symbols: Process symbols.dic before emojis.dic.
• symbols: Enable speechd symbols processing by default.
• modules: Moved speech dispatcher modules to /usr/libexec/speech-dispatcher-modules
  (but keep compatibility with old /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules path).
• espeak-ng: Add support for mbrola voices.
• ibmtts/voxin: Improve language selection.
• ibmtts/voxin: Add option to disable punctuation commands.
• ibmtts: Fix library load.
• ibmtts: Do not build by default on other systems than 32bit PC.
• mary: Add auto-detection.
• mary: Add newer voices.
• mary: Add volume, pitch, and rate support.
• ivona: Add auto-detection.
• festival: Strip head silence.
• generic: Add DefaultVoice option.
• es_ES: Add some gender neutral rules.
• Add SPEECHD_CMD environment variable.
• modules: Rewrite main functions with BSD licence, to let proprietary modules easily reuse this as a basis.
• modules: Add skeletons ready for use as a basis for new modules.
• Add script to run speechd from the build tree.
• Update CLDR to version 39, symbols from NVDA and orca.
• Add Esperanto translation.
• Sort modules by quality, let the best quality module be the default.

What is new in 0.11.0 compared to 0.11.0-rc5?

• Sort modules by quality, let the best quality module be the default.