I've added a new English voice to eSpeak 1.19 named "en-r". This is a "rhotic" accent, i.e. it pronounces "r" sounds even when they are not followed by a vowel, and so it should sound less "British" to an American user. eSpeak is available from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ It now comes with two versions of the command-line program: 1. "espeak", this is a very small program which uses libespeak shared library for the speech engine. 2. "speak", this is a stand-alone version which doesn't use the shared library. It's possible that "espeak" may have a slight advantage in responsiveness over "speak".
