Wren

Basically … I have been using Wren for a couple of years now without feeling the need to make any changes or updates to it. And I have been pretty happy with it - ran some live shows with it and made a good hand full of recordings from self playing patches.

However … a short while ago it was brought to my attention that the eSpeak module is not working properly. Looking into his blog [ https://bluehell.nl/blogje/index.php/2023/12/30/found-some-bugs/ ] made me realize that I had already kown this .. but had completely forgotten.

Anyway - I’ve started working on eSpeak again .. with a couple of conclusions sofar:

*) windows 7 and eSpeak is troublesome - this may be solved with eSpeak-ng BTW … win7 complains about an xaudio dll not being present .. there is some web bla bla about this - use your search engine.

*) I’m actually using eSpeak-ng, and not eSpeak and this works not completely the same [and I did not realize this nor that].

*) eSpeak-ng works now .. but not completely … I’ve made a secret test release [which works for me] but not an official one yet.

*) whisper and croak etc still do not work - and I do not yet know why that would be.

More to follow …

Edit: ok .. after undoing a bugfix I did today .. whispering & such works agakin - cool - will do a release soon I guess