#8980 NORM Not Tri: eSpeak needs updating for language fixes

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#8980: eSpeak needs updating for language fixes
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 Reporter:  ssb22         |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect        |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:               
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 eSpeak on the OLPC stable build is currently at version 1.31.  More recent
 versions include major improvements to Spanish, French and Mandarin, as
 well as improvements to English/US, Afrikaans, and Polish, and fixing
 certain letters / foreign words in Italian, Russian and Cantonese.  There
 are also new languages Tamil, Turkish, Kurdish, Latin American Spanish and
 Indonesian, and a few bugs and segfaults fixed (including crash on some
 very long words, premature exit on empty sentence, etc).

 If anyone is using eSpeak to learn the above-mentioned languages then
 they'll want these fixes.  (I don't know all those languages but I know
 eSpeak's Mandarin was much worse in 1.31 than it is now, and I dread to
 think someone would want to learn from 1.31 instead of latest stable
 release of eSpeak.)

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