Tamas GFun fact: TGSpeechBox partially exists because I emailed the creator of eSpeak in 2010 asking if I could reconstruct a Hungarian formant synthesizer from a phonetics paper. I was 18 and wrote "I'm not really a programmer." But it was enough to get my spark of interest started in synthesis.
Jonathan Duddington replied "It may be possible" and asked me to send voice recordings. That's how eSpeak got its
Hungarian voice. Every Hungarian NVDA and Linux user since then traces back to that email chain.
16 years later, the "not really a programmer" ships a 26-language formant speech synthesizer on 6 platforms. NV Speech
Player got archived, I picked it up, and here we are.
Jonathan passed away (not confirmed! disappeared from public life?) some years ago. The community carried eSpeak forward as espeak-ng. TGSpeechBox still uses his
phonemizer as its front end. The torch keeps getting passed. There's a reason I'm still with Espeak.
v3.0-rc2 just shipped. 112 testers on TestFlight. Android on the Play Store. Linux working on a Raspberry Pi. Not bad for "maybe possible."
Jonathan Duddington replied "It may be possible" and asked me to send voice recordings. That's how eSpeak got its
Hungarian voice. Every Hungarian NVDA and Linux user since then traces back to that email chain.
16 years later, the "not really a programmer" ships a 26-language formant speech synthesizer on 6 platforms. NV Speech
Player got archived, I picked it up, and here we are.
Jonathan passed away (not confirmed! disappeared from public life?) some years ago. The community carried eSpeak forward as espeak-ng. TGSpeechBox still uses his
phonemizer as its front end. The torch keeps getting passed. There's a reason I'm still with Espeak.
v3.0-rc2 just shipped. 112 testers on TestFlight. Android on the Play Store. Linux working on a Raspberry Pi. Not bad for "maybe possible."