For almost forty years, German has had a development towards a more gender inclusive language, which has seen a lot of public adoption in recent years, and other TTS providers are also moving to support this new way of speaking.

There is even a wikipedia article on the so-called _Gender star_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star

espeak-ng's pronunciation is already almost correct when Forms such as "Benutzer_innen" or "Zuhörer:innen" are used with an underscore or a colon. If it is not possible to work with the glottal stop, the behaviour of the Gender star should at least match that of the Gender underscore and the "Gender Doppelpunkt". 

I've tried to add corresponding rules myself, but failed building the program.

Thanks for your work on espeak-ng! 

Add support for gender-inclusive German
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Title : Add support for gender-inclusive German
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For almost forty years, German has had a development towards a more gender inclusive language, which has seen a lot of public adoption in recent years, and other TTS providers are also moving to support this new way of speaking.

There is even a wikipedia article on the so-called _Gender star_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_star

espeak-ng's pronunciation is already almost correct when Forms such as "Benutzer_innen" or "Zuhörer:innen" are used with an underscore or a colon. If it is not possible to work with the glottal stop, the behaviour of the Gender star should at least match that of the Gender underscore and the "Gender Doppelpunkt". 

I've tried to add corresponding rules myself, but failed building the program.

Thanks for your work on espeak-ng! 

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