v1.5

Changed

• Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech upgraded from v1.24.1 to v1.33.0 (changelog)
• Upgraded to .NET 8 #138

Full Changelog: v1.4...v1.5

v1.4

Changed

• Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech upgraded from 1.19.0 to v1.24.1 (changelog)
• Upgraded to .NET 7

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v1.3

Changed

• Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech upgraded to v1.19.0 (changelog)
• Upgraded to .NET 6

v1.2

Changed

• Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech upgraded to v1.14.0 (changelog)
• 5 non-neural voices have been replaced with neural ones (f74e54a). See also: https://aka.ms/speech/tts-languages
• Upgraded to .NET 5
  • this improves performance of self-contained binaries (using ReadyToRun build flag)
  • now .NET 5 is required to run framework-dependent binaries

v1.1

Added

• read input from stdin if it's missing as command line parameter

v1.0

Added

• support for 7 new voices (and languages)
  • now SayIt supports: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin)
• support for 8 new output formats, through the -f command line flag.
  • now SayIt supports: audio-16khz-32kbitrate-mono-mp3, audio-16khz-64kbitrate-mono-mp3, audio-16khz-128kbitrate-mono-mp3, audio-24khz-96kbitrate-mono-mp3, audio-24khz-160kbitrate-mono-mp3, audio-24khz-48kbitrate-mono-mp3, riff-8khz-16bit-mono-pcm, riff-16khz-16bit-mono-pcm, riff-24khz-16bit-mono-pcm
• -lf flag to list supported output formats
• -lv flag to list supported voices

Changed

• Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech upgraded to v1.11.0

Fixed

• improved comments in settings file and --help flag text

v0.3

SayIt is now released both as framework-dependent binaries and as self-contained ("-sc") binaries, which don't need the installation of the dotnet core runtime on the machine.

Changed

• 3066187 add support for dotnet core 3.1

v0.2

Fixed

• 4b1c8d1 dispose task result to fix hanging on Windows (#24)

Changed

• 0697b16 Bump FsUnit.xUnit to v3.8.0 (#22)
• 5ddda60 Bump Argu to v6.0.0 (#21)
• 893aa77 Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to v16.4.0 (#20)
• d7c5efa Bump Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech to v1.8.0 (#19)

v0.1

First release 🎯

• Language supported: English, French and Italian.
• Audio export formats: MP3 16Khz 32KB/s mono

The released binaries are self-contained, which means you don't need to install the .NET Core runtime.