@Tamasg what do you mean? I'm using espeak myself, and I hear the H fine. I'm also using american english, maybe that's why?

@esoteric_programmer so with "not have" it kind of, blends the "H" straight with the end of the Not, with a flap, rather than separating the two like Eloquence. Something I guess my ear picked up on. I don't think it's entirely wrong, some English speakers do connect the two heavily like that, but it makes it also less clear when you speed it up.

@Tamasg hmm, interesting, but also, what's tg speech box?

@esoteric_programmer oh, formant synth I forked off Speechplayer code, now approved to be MIT by NVAccess which is great. https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox

@Tamasg awesome! does it work only on windows? I assume it's c++ or something, right?

@esoteric_programmer C++ for the DSP and Frontend, Linux renderer, SAPI engine yeah. Swift and Kotlin for iOS and Android which has been a heap of fun to pick up. The Linux renderer is meant to be flexible with the phonemizer it can pass STDIN/STDOUT with, but uses Espeak and a generic speech dispatcher config. I always build 7 targets now, so it's gotten quite wieldy

@Tamasg do you have some audio samples and maybe linux packages? also, do you know of this new speech format on linux called spiel? with that, you can package your app as a flatpak and people can install that as a speech engine, without having to muck around with config files and stuff

@esoteric_programmer flatpacks are a really cool concept on Linux, even if they can reinstall some dependencies multiple times if the app bundles the lib, but the isolation for easier removal is really worth it. Will definitely look into that, then CI could just build it for me remotely.