= MARY TTS 4.2.0: Release notes = [http://mary.dfki.de/download/4.2.0/openmary-standalone-install-4.2.0.jar Download MARY TTS 4.2.0] This is a feature release, adding new features while maintaining compatibility with existing 4.x voices. This release marks the final results of work on MARY TTS in the [http://www.semaine-project.eu SEMAINE project], where our main focus for TTS has been on building expressive British English voices with listener vocalization capabilities. == New features for synthesis of expressive vocalizations == * Improved support for expressive vocalizations in the British English unit selection voices dfki-poppy, dfki-prudence, dfki-spike and dfki-obadiah. Signal modification is now used to combine intonation contours and segmental forms, as described in [http://www.dfki.de/lt/publication_show.php?id=4886 Pammi et al. (2010)]. * Added vocalization support to the HMM-based versions of these voices: dfki-poppy-hsmm, dfki-prudence-hsmm, dfki-spike-hsmm and dfki-obadiah-hsmm. For details on the new MaryXML tag and usage examples, see VocalizationSynthesis. == New voice == * For German, we created bits1-hsmm, a female HMM-based voice built from recordings provided by [http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Forschung/BITS/index.html BITS]. == Bugfixes == * This release also includes a number of bugfixes, see [[BR]]http://mary.opendfki.de/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=4.2