• Provide more validation when reading phoneme tables and voice/language files.
• Removed support for phoneme equivalence tables. These were disabled in the French and German language files.
• Allow pre- as well as post-jump rules in dictionary files.
• Support building the Windows version with Visual Studio 2013.
• Use language and accent names consistently across the language files.
• Group the encoding handling into a single place with a clean interface and tests.
• Support all ISO 8859 encodings.
• Support for multi-word text replacements in language dictionaries.
• Support compiling _emoji dictionary files if present.

bug fixes:

• Fix running make clean ; make.
• Fix reading stdin buffers larger than 1000.
• Fixed various language and parent BCP 47 codes (jp is now ja).
• Fixed several crashes and bugs in espeak_SetVoiceByName/Properties.

new languages:

• bpy (Bishnupriya Manipuri) -- Vardhan
• fr-CH (French (Switzerland)) -- Claude Beazley
• kok (Konkani) -- Vardhan
• mi (Māori) -- Graham Oliver
• sd (Sindhi, Arabic script) -- Vardhan, Ejaz Shah

updated languages:

• af (Afrikaans) -- Christo de Klerk
• de (German) -- Valdis Vitolins
• du (Dutch) -- Leonard de Ruijter
• en (English) -- Reece Dunn. Thanks to Kendell Clark for identifying mispronunciations.
• fa (Farsi/Persian) -- Shadyar Khodayari
• fr (French) -- Valdis Vitolins; Reece Dunn
• gu (Gujarati) -- Vardhan
• hi (Hindi) -- Vardhan
• it (Italian) -- chrislm
• ky (Kyrgyz) -- JRMeyer
• lv (Latvian) -- Valdis Vitolins
• mr (Marathi) -- Vardhan
• or (Oriya) -- Vardhan
• ur (Urdu) -- Ejaz Shah

Unicode Emoji support (from the Unicode Emoji 5.0, and CLDR 31.0.1 data files):

• af (Afrikaans)
• am (Amharic)
• ar (Arabic)
• az (Azerbaijani)
• bg (Bulgarian)
• bn (Bengali)
• bs (Bosnian)
• ca (Catalan)
• cs (Czech)
• cy (Welsh)
• da (Danish)
• de (German)
• el (Greek)
• en (English) -- American
• es (Spanish)
• et (Estonian)
• eu (Basque)
• fa (Farsi/Persian)
• fi (Finnish)
• fr (French)
• ga (Irish Gaelic)
• gu (Gujarati)
• hi (Hindi)
• hr (Croatian)
• hu (Hungarian)
• hy (Armenian)
• id (Indonesian)
• is (Icelandic)
• it (Italian)
• ja (Japanese)
• ka (Georgian)
• kn (Kannada)
• ko (Korean)
• ky (Kyrgyz)
• lt (Lithuanian)
• lv (Latvian)
• mk (Macedonian)
• ml (Malayalam)
• mr (Marathi)
• ms (Malay)
• my (Myanmar/Burmese)
• ne (Nepali)
• nl (Dutch)
• or (Oriya)
• pa (Punjabi)
• pl (Polish)
• pt (Portuguese) -- Brazil
• ro (Romanian)
• ru (Russian)
• si (Sinhala)
• sk (Slovak)
• sl (Slovenian)
• sq (Albanian)
• sr (Serbian)
• sv (Swedish)
• sw (Swahili)
• ta (Tamil)
• te (Telugu)
• tr (Turkish)
• ur (Urdu)
• vi (Vietnamese)
• zh (Chinese)