changelog.txt

18-06-2018:
	unused imported modules were deleted.
	fixed crashing expression for spanish language.
	added utf-8 coding header in order to fix some reg expressions.

13-07-2018:
	changed  pauses from p0 to p1.
	all french fixes were placed in the same conditional.
	now uses x in (1, 2) instead of x==1 or x==2 for all cases.
	added "!" to punctuation list.

15-07-2018:
	added "-" to punctuation list.
	added pauses for dash "-" symbol.
	comma "," is replaced by dash "-" at the end of a string because eloquence seems to ignore commas at the end.
	deleted "should_pause=False" parameter in xspeaktext because it isn't used anywere in the code. It was used to fix audio issues but currently seems to be unused.
	incorrect behavior when spelling text has been fixed.
	xspeakText changed to processText to clarify code.

12-08-2018:
	maxRate changed from 250 to 156.
	added rateBoost setting. Enable this option to increase rate by 1.6x.

16-09-2018:
	Fixed rate param conversion when rate boost is active.
16/03/2019
	Deleted Queue import in ibmeci.py, since this module is not used here.
	Updated code for compatibility with python 3.
	Defined unicode function for backward compatibility with python 2.7.
	added b prefix to strings to treat them as byteStrings, since python 3 strings are unicode by default.
	CHANGED isinstance(item,basestring) TO STR.
	Updated auto language detection to simplify the code and compatibility for python 3.
	Updated processText function.
	Now in _imbesi uses io.BytesIO rater than cStringIo.StringIO
	added seek(0) since BytesIO doesn't update it automatically when truncate.