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a ChangeLog file and a text file namely eSpeakPlus with citation to the used open-source projects are added
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Mahmood-Taghavi committed Mar 27, 2020
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eSpeakPlus version 1.1:
- Now also support Windows XP by using Inno Setup 5.5.8 (Unicode) instead of Inno Setup 6.0.4 (Unicode).
- Use a better Mbrolla.dll which was compiled by version 2015 of the visual studio instead of version 6.
- Install Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable (x86) version 14.25.28508.3 to support the updated [mbrola.dll].

eSpeakPlus version 1.0:
- initial release of eSpeakPlus.
- using espeak 1.48.15, open-source mbrola.dll which was compiled by the visual studio 6 c++, plus some open-source Mbrola voices, and the voice variants which were defined in the espeak NG project.
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eSpeakPlus is a collection of the legacy espeak version 1.48.15 Text To Speech (TTS) which supports SAPI 5 speech driver in Windows, the open-sourced Mbrola library, plus some Mbrola voices (ir1; de6; de7; en1; us1; us2; us3), and voice variants including the famous “max” which are defined in the espeak NG project.
The eSpeakPlus also provides phonetic translation files for two Mbrola diphone databases namely de6 and de7 and definition of mb-de6-fa, mb-de6-en, mb-de7-fa, and mb-de7-en espeak Mbrola voice files which enable espeak to read Persian and English text using the aforementioned German diphones.

The direct link to the eSpeakPlus project homepage is:
https://mahmood-taghavi.github.io/eSpeakPlus/

The open-sourced projects which are used in the eSpeakPlus are:
- espeak version 1.48.15 Text To Speech (TTS):
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html
- open-sourced Mbrola library
https://github.com/thiekus/MBROLA
-Mbrola voices:
https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices
- voice variants of the espeak NG project:
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/tree/master/espeak-ng-data/voices/!v

License: GNU General Public License, version 3.
Mahmood Taghavi © 2020
https://mahmood-taghavi.github.io/

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