This variant sounds consistent and similar to Reed voice, found on Eloquence

They are making the files non-ascii for no useful reason

voice fast is related to speed.fast_settings. Others were errors in
LoadVoice() parsing or commented out code.

Note that some voices are from the original espeak and have comments
that might be outdated.

The six modified files all had spurious characters introduced apparently
as a result of files with the UTF8 BOM marker, U-FFFE, which is
conventionally used at the start of text files to indicate a UTF-8 file
and is invisible under normal circumstances (e.g. the file is opened as
a text file).

None of these files are recognized by espeak-ng on Linux systems because
the 'language variant' line is seen by espeak-ng as starting with a new
character.

'gustave' is an uncorrupted file, it correctly starts with the BOM in
UTF-8 (three bytes), however even though it is correct espeak-ng does
not read it (this may be a separate bug!)

'marcelo' somehow got the BOM character replaced by a literal '?',
notice that 'git diff' on these changes will, indeed, show the removed
character in 'gustave' as a literal '?'.  Notice also that the character
in question, the BOM, is actually the Unicode 'zero width no-break
space', so it is pretty invisible.

The remaining files seem to have suffered major corruption possible as a
result of dostounix style convertions.  The line endings, normally <lf>
on Unix or <cr><lf> on Windows, had been converted to <cr><lf><lf> and
the BOM had been replaced by a <tab> character.

Signed-off-by: John Bowler <[email protected]>

New voices...

IT: fixes some exceptions.

This is a Variant I created called male8, probably one of the smoothest sounding espeak male variants ever. It sounds very good with inflection at 100, which I don't know if you can only change in NVDA or other programs too.