have you downloaded Super Liam 1.5 yet? There are a ton of new features including the Super L AI M mode. And you can play it on mac now! Also. it's free! https://l-works.net/superliam.php
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I have a computer science degree and work in IT. I'm a fan of Apple, but not to an extreme. I enjoy playing acoustic guitar and electric bass. I'm blind.
Is it me, or do the pit sounds not pan when you jump over them in the new Super Liam? The drips, lava, and the like always seem to stay centered as I jump. I think I'm going to fall every time. @LWorksGames
Super Liam 1.5 is now here. go get it and check out all the new modes including the new Super L AI M mode. https://l-works.net/superliam.php
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
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
@LWorksGames I started up the new Great Toy Robbery even though I'm at work still. I'm letting it run in the background to see if getting myself killed without moving a single step will grant me an achievement. I love how the game volume drops when I switch away from the game.
There you all go: The AppStore listing for TGSpeechbox is now live. This concludes the V3.0 sprint cycle started about four weeks ago.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tgspeechbox/id6759512621
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tgspeechbox/id6759512621
Phil PlaitThe universe could be filled with teeny-weeny black holes way smaller than protons! Or not. But if so they might have exploded long ago! Unless they're like mountains.
Science is so damned cool.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-swarming-with-tiny-black-holes/
Surprise! the Great toy robbery 2.1 has been released! Get it for Windows and mac! https://l-works.net/tgtr.php
Fun 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."