Nope. There's Acapella Infovox, and the hacked Eloquence that works with VO too.

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> On Aug 7, 2015, at 10:12 PM, Janina Sajka <jan...@rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> Oh dear. That really is too bad. I guess the walled garden can sometimes
> be a 5-star luxury prison.
> 
> So, all voices have to go through Apple itself? I guess that's the
> implication.
> 
> Janina
> 
> Devin Prater writes:
>> The huge, giant, Bible sized problem is, that eSpeak is not supportive of 
>> voiceover. Sure you could probably run it fine in terminal, but Then you 
>> could only read text files with it, and possibly convert them to sound 
>> files. Its really bad when some one can get a closed-source synth like 
>> Eloquence to work but not a freely open source engine like eSpeak.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 7, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Janina Sajka <jan...@rednote.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm just now catching up on this list and note no one suggested trying
>>> espeak for osx. Yes, it's a formant voice. However, it does provide a
>>> Classical Greek varient, and the maintainer is very supportive of
>>> specific suggestions for improving pronunciation.
>>> 
>>> http://espeak.sf.net
>>> 
>>> I have wondered, however, whether Classical Greek is what we really need
>>> for Biblical study, as the New Testament is in Koine Greek. Here again,
>>> I suspect Jonathan, the maintainer of espeak, would be supportive of
>>> building and providing a Koine voice, if some expert might give him
>>> specifics on what needs to be different. I would imagine Koine is
>>> relatively close to Classical Greek, as the time difference is only a
>>> few centuries.
>>> 
>>> hth
>>> 
>>> Janina
>>> 
>>> Brian Howerton writes:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I am trying to teach myself new testament greek.  I was wondering if 
>>>> anyone has tested learning a biblical language on the mac with voiceover.  
>>>> Just was curious to see how that might work with voiceover as far as 
>>>> pronunciations and things like that.  Thanks,
>>>> Brian
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