CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Well, I think there's only one solution folks. adding a notBeforeFlags condition to the allophone rule engine. This would let word-final aspirated stop rules say "only fire when the next phoneme ISN'T a vowel" - so "blank" gets breathiness but "back up" keeps its full aspiration. Useful for other languages too anyway, maybe.

Safe cases (all good):• "blank", "cat", "stop", "milk", "help" — word-final stop followed by silence or end of utterance. No aspiration token exists. Breathiness injects cleanly. ✓• "crisp", "act", "fact", "craft" — final stop in a coda cluster. Only the LAST stop (/p/ in crisp, /t/ in act) is word-final. Earlier stops in the cluster aren't. ✓• "blanket", "stopping" — stops before vowels within a word. NOT word-final. Rules don't fire. ✓• "grab", "bad", "dog" — voiced stops. Rules list only [p, t, k]. No match. ✓• "match", "watch" — /tʃ/ is a single affricate token, not "t". No match. ✓• "lapse", "box", "tax" — /p/ and /k/ are before /s/ within the word, NOT word-final. /s/ is word-final but isn't in our rule's phoneme list. ✓The problem case: "back up", "stop it"Well fuck.

@Tamasg maybe Claude is treating the code like it's the baby you two have cocreated, so it's affectionately pondering because it's nurturing that code baby.

Gosh wow. Firefox crashes, it restores itself to the "edit release" page, and now, everything attaches twice to the release? That's just an odd one. What the heck, it shouldn't resubmit data like that.

@Lino0876 yeah, all versions from 2023.2 to and 2026.1 are supported, I run it through each installer before releasing to make sure we can work on both types at the same time and nothing broke. Haha and yeah, same thought LOL!

Things I hate about Espeak's English: It says "resource" not as re-source but melds the e sound into the R, and for whatever reason it says "semi" not as Eloquence's "sem-mee" but the "sem-ih" way you would call a truck. Both of these get me every time.