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Update the news file for 0.4.a2
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Olga-Yakovleva committed Dec 15, 2012
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New in version 0.4-a2

A new Russian female voice has been included. It is trained on a
larger speech database, recorded by Irina Vorobyova. As usual, it
seems to have speech quality problems because of pitch extraction
failures, which is especially noticable in utterance final syllables.
I tried to model interrogative intonation explicitly by including many
questions in the recording script, but the attempt seems to be only
partially successful.

Several new configuration settings have been added, including
pseudo-english mode for Russian voices.

I now use the following two sources of information about stress
placement in Russian: a stress dictionary generated from RuLex, which
is a Russian pronunciation dictionary by Igor Poretsky, and a stress
dictionary extracted from Russian Wiktionary.

This version of RHVoice introduces a native implementation of an
output module for Speech Dispatcher. Though some features, such as reading of
key presses, have not been implemented yet.

New in version 0.4-a1

This is actually not an update, but a completely new synthesizer.
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