TGSpeechBox 3.0 is out. After seven betas, two release candidates, and more commits than I care to count — I'm calling it done.
I've been building this synthesizer for 5 months now, and 3.0 is the first release where I feel like it's genuinely a different piece of software from what came before. If you put 2.99 and 3.0 side by side, the difference isn't subtle. The vowels, the diphthongs, the stops, the prosody, the way connected speech actually flows, it's night and day. The Fujisaki pitch model not being a mechanical bull, the diphthong collapse system, the dictionary system fully done, the prominence and multiple-pitch pass pipeline. All of it came together in this cycle.
Every platform got real work. Linux is a first-class citizen now! A native Speech Dispatcher module, proper installer, PipeWire and ALSA auto-detection. No more pipes, no more shimmer. Android is on Google Play. iOS and macOS are on the App Store. Windows SAPI has a full settings UI. The pronunciation dictionary system ships on all of them.
None of this happened alone. This release belongs to the testers, the issue reporters, the dictionary contributors, and everyone who sent feedback across the betas. You shaped it.
3.0 is a milestone. I hope you hear it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tgspeechbox/id6759512621
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tgspeechbox.tts
https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox/releases/download/v-300/TGSpeechBox-300.nvda-addon
https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox/releases/download/v-300/TGSBPhonemeEditor-v300.zip
https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox/releases/download/v-300/TGSpeechSapiSetup-v300.exe
https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox/releases/download/v-300/TGSpeechBox-v300.apk
https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox/releases/download/v-300/tgspeechbox-linux-x86_64-v-300.tar.gz
https://github.com/tgeczy/TGSpeechBox/releases/download/v-300/tgspeechbox-linux-aarch64-v-300.tar.gz
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.tgspeechbox.tts
https://testflight.apple.com/join/Y8RBtGBY

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