Version 0.8.6 (Aug 2, 2015)

• Updated translations

Version 0.8.5 (Oct 4, 2014)

• Updated translations

Version 0.8.4 (Sep 6, 2014)

• Updated translations

Version 0.8.3 (Aug 31, 2014)

• Updated translations
• New Arabic translation by M I
• New Vietnamese translation by Anh Phan
• New Turkish translation by Necdet Yücel

Version 0.8.2 (Oct 17, 2010)

• Removed the plugins amsn, emesene, kopete, pidgin, telepathy They were moved to another source repository for separated maintenance and versioning
• Added handlepaths to EspeakFrontend.py
• If the specified MBROLA folder doesn’t exist fallback to the default path
• Switch to the new mbrola and espeak versions
• New German translation by Heinrich Schwietering
• New Faroese translation by Gunleif Joensen
• Fixed handling of broken symlinks for amsn and emesene plugins

Version 0.8.1 (Jun 26, 2010)

• New bulgarian translation by Svetoslav Stefanov
• User configuration moved in XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead of previous hardcoded folder (sorry for your saved settings)
• New plugins architecture
• Moved dbus, save voice settings, save window size, welcome message in external plugins
• New command-line features
• Stop previous play on quit (moved on external plugin)
• New plugins: debug, save window position
• New plugins minimal configuration in preferences dialog
• New Telepathy, Pidgin, Emesene, Kopete and aMSN plugins

Version 0.8 (Jun 13, 2010)

• Moved translators from .po files to doc/translators
• New Polish translation by Andrey J
• New DBUS interface to interact from external apps
• Fixed minimum words gap from 5 to 0 in main UI

Version 0.7 (Dic 13, 2009)

• New handlepaths module to reflect the changed directory structure
• New setup.py for distutils installation
• New packaging following the Debian policy

Version 0.6 (Jul 18, 2009)

• Fixed audio testing localized string
• An error message is now shown if the audio player is not found instead of quietly ignore the error
• New spanish translation provided by David Prieto
• New MBROLA support with more realistic voices
• Added MBROLA voices to languages list
• Tabbed preferences dialog for new MBROLA support
• Moved language, voice type and variants to base settings and pitch, volume, speed and gap sliders to advanced settings upon suggestion of frandavid100
• Added automatic txt extension on saving text file
• Added automatic wav extension on saving WAVE file This was causing weird noises on playing the recorded track if it wasn’t a .wav filename

Version 0.5 (Jun 30, 2009)

• Added an extender separator for settings to allow maximum usage of the window with the text
• Added filters for load/save text dialogs
• Added support for recording the audio track to wave
• Added a statusbar showing the active record mode
• Added preferences dialog
• Added preferences save and reload for welcome message, window size, voice settings and expander status
• Added support for audio frontend: ALSA (aplay), PulseAudio (paplay) and user customized player command, with audio command test
• Added voice variants by scanning /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/!v folder for extra voice variants
• Fixed stock icon for DialogFileOpenSave

Version 0.4 (Jun 20, 2009)

• Added SubprocessWrapper.Popen to wrap subprocess.Popen in order to support python versions prior to 2.6 which don’t have the delete argument on object creation
• Added TempfileWrapper.NamedTemporaryFile to wrap tempfile’s Popen object in order to support python versions prior to 2.6 which don’t have terminate and send_signal methods Actually no more used, left for future usage
• Now Gespeaker works with python version 2.4 and higher
• Temporary file for output to speech is created at program start so new temporary files are no longer created after each play
• Included pause and resume features
• New icon and logo, kindly provided by MIX
• New french translation provided by Emmanuel

Version 0.3 (Jun 18, 2009)

• Used only for testing, never released
• Added support for voice type (male/female) via +12 for female voice
• Removed escaped text substitution with a more secure temporary file with the text to play
• Substituted direct shell piping with more secure subprocess’ piping
• Better control of external calls, now both espeak and player execution are polled for exitcode and terminated if requested
• Added documentation and artists parameters to DialogAbout

Version 0.2 (Jun 14, 2009)

• Changed UI layout according to GNOME 2.32 HIG specifications
• Fixed DialogAbout.set_icon_from_file icon usage, which was wrongly hardcoded
• Symlinked copyright file to /usr/share/doc/gespeaker/copyright

Version 0.1 (Jun 13, 2009)

• Initial release