Compatibility policy
The primary target is the Piper Python voice behavior at the pinned Piper 1.8.0 reference commit 404aefedbd74baa0bd43e451bc407a2b3aace0f5. libpiper behavior is a separate compatibility profile and is not silently mixed into the runtime.
Feature |
Core |
Compatibility label |
|---|---|---|
Text frontend |
yes |
exact for tested Python profile |
Native eSpeak clause API |
system library |
exact when the public terminator API is present |
eSpeak CLI |
executable required |
best-effort |
Raw blocks |
yes, eSpeak only |
reference-tested foundation |
Pinyin, Japanese, Thai, Hebrew |
recognized configuration values |
unavailable, no provider |
Arabic eSpeak |
recognized voice profile |
explicitly unsupported until preprocessing is implemented |
Lexphon/G2Lex overlay |
opt-in |
|
The pinned Phase 1 corpus metadata is in benchmarks/data/core.json. It is not a golden output and cannot silently refresh. Exactness claims require reference output and dependency metadata.