eSpeak  1.26

1. Improvements to languages including
   hu Hungarian, ro Romanian, af Afrikaans.
   pt Portuguese, en-r.

2. New language "is" (Icelandic, initial
   draft).



eSpeak  1.25

1. Improvements to languages including
   fr French, cs Czech, sk Slovak,
   no Norwegian, hr Croatian,
   pt-pt European Portuguese.

2. Croatian, allow either Latin or Cyrillic. 

3. Change to the tone balance.


eSpeak  1.24

1. Improvements to languages including
   cs Czech,  el Greek

2. Windows: the installer sets the Language
   attribute in the Registry for each voice.


eSpeak  1.23

1. Added language
   hr  Croatian

eSpeak  1.22

1. Windows: added a command-line version,
   espeak.exe.

2. eSpeak can be used as a frontend to mbrola 
diphone voices.  See docs/mbrola.html.

3. Added languages
   cs  Czech
   sk  Slovak
   en-sc  Scottish English

4. Improved languages:
   pl  Polish
   sv  Swedish

5. Increased the fastest speaking rate to 370 wpm.


eSpeak 1.21

1. Added languages
   hu  Hungarian
   sw  Swahili

2. Increased the top speed slightly
(max speed is 320)

3. Added espeak_Info() function n speak_lib.h to
give the eSpeak version number.

4. Added "tone" attribute in voices files, to
adjust the frequency response of the speech.
Changed the default setting to give a little
more bass.

5. Other language improvements and bug fixes.


eSpeak 1.20

1. Workaround for a bug in some versions of
portaudio v19 which caused segfault.

2. A few other bug fixes, including the $brk
attribute in *_list files not working.


eSpeak 1.19

1. Changes make for PowerPC and other big-endian
processors.

2. Voice added  en-r  for less "British" English.

3. The Windows installer asks which languages to
install in the Registry.


eSpeak 1.18

1. Asynchronous modes added to libespeak. Speech
can either be played or retrieved asynchonously.

2. eSpeak API changed to accommodate asynchonous
modes, see speak_lib.h.

3. Changed eSpeak library functions and
speak_lib.h to use C compatible function calls.

4. Two versions of the command-line program:
 espeak, which uses the libespeak library.
 speak, which is a standalone program.

5. Windows SAPI5 version made, with installer.

6. Added "voice variants" feature, so that different
 sounding voices can be used with any language.
 See "docs/voices.html"

7. Added languages (* naive initial draft only)
 ro Romanian
 fr French
 sv Swedish *
 no Norwegian *
 hi Hindi *
 vi Vietnamese *

 Improved languages
 af Afrikaans
 de German
