This is expected to be the last milestone release in the 5.x generation of MaryTTS.

New Features

Improvements

Support for Luxembourgish
Completely rewritten text preprocessing module for English (removing reliance on FreeTTS)
Better support for Java 8
Some migration towards building with Gradle

Voicebuilding

All unit-selection voices have been rebuilt using the new Gradle plugin
All HSMM voices are now hosted on Bintray and can be resolved as dependencies
Voices with open data now have open-source voicebuilding repositories hosted on GitHub, which include downloadable distribution packages

Development news

#533: support system preferredmodule
#525: Update dependencies and maven plugins
#523: solving quotes phonetisation problem
#506: Duplicate subexpressions in WeightedCodebookMfccMapper.java
#499: Upgrade Apache Commons Collections to v3.2.2
#493: Drop assembly plugin
#425: various fixes for C++ client source code
#399: Component installer License download re-code following #395
#393: package.html files converted into package-info.java files
#362: add support for Groovy
#353: Swap inlined third-party code with dependencies
#351: update of maven plugins used for the website and build plugins
#333: remove subscription/post links to archived mary-dev mailing list
#330: show port number when starting MaryTTS server
#320: move outdated example code from runtime assembly into doc directory
#309: try to process tokens if they contain word characters, even when they are tagged as punctuation
#228: fix on drop FreeTTS dependencies
#227: Enhanced OutputStreams for Mary Client
#217: incrementality changes

Fixed Issues/Bugs

#593: Don’t split up multiple punctuation marks in tokenization
#570: Praat TextGrid output is invalid with boundaries (times are not monotonic)
#564: add missing TOKENS examples
#555: HMMModel generates malformed XML duration attributes
#531: java.awt.HeadlessException in (Half)PhoneLabelFeatureAligner
#516: Single words conduct to have a wrong POS which leads to a crash of the target feature module
#515: preprocessing contraction and double quotes correction
#503: halfphoneUnitFeatureDefinition_ac.txt does not have any continuous features even though halfphoneFeatures_ac.mry does
#480: IBAN code → stacktrace
#469: APML is broken
#468: SABLE is broken
#467: SIMPLEPHONEMES is broken
#465: enable acoustic features by default
#460: Tokens mistakenly POS-tagged as punctuation cause wrong boundary insertion
#458: VoiceCompiler generates invalid package name from db.voicename property
#452: Disable assertions in user startup scripts
#448: unit selection: final boundary durations synthesized 50% shorter than requested
#428: error in marytts cart DecisionNode
#421: Force English locale for parsing date when English language is used
#409: ensure that ICU4J’s resource is read with the correct encoding, regardless of environment
#398: Use https URLs whenever possible
#395: component installer hangs if licenses cannot be downloaded
#375: add Groovy script to generate component descriptor XML and fix POM template
#369: handle exceptions on missing or malformed userdict entries
#365: upgrade groovy-maven (formerly gmaven) plugin to solve noClassDefFoundError when running MaryTTS server
#359: don’t append an /6/ to the previous syllable if that syllable is not adjacent
#354: move custom jtok resources into jtok-user
#352: javadoc fails with Java 8
#342: workaround for NullPointerException in syllables that violate sonority constraints
#341: temporarily handle digit suffix stress notation from legacy LTS CARTs until these are rebuilt
#322: drop transitional punctuation POS tag logic
#314: not processing null results from phonemise methods
#237: fix for incorrect linear interpolation in MathUtils.interpolateNonZeroValues
#213: fix for rate adjustment
#206: fix for LTSTrainerTest failure on unexpected file.encoding
#204: fix for Locale null breaking MaryServer
#202: URISyntaxException avoids WikipediaMarkupCleanerTest failing if workspace contains space
#198: fix for closing fileOutputStream after audio save
#185: fix for EnvironmentTest failure on Java 8