Hi, David! Jonathan has disappeared from the net for long time now. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng. Mailing list of espeak-ng project is: https://groups.io/g/espeak-ng
For me worked installation of Oracle 8 32-bit JDK and DavMail 32-bit version.
I changed project status and now it has button "This project can now be found here".
eSpeak project is inactive for long time now. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng. Mailing list of espeak-ng project is https://groups.io/g/espeak-ng
As far as I understand, this is the same as merged pull request: https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA/pull/24
Please check, how it works with eSpeak NG latest version 1.50.
MBROLA is published as open source here: https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA And most of MBROLA voices are published (with non-commercial licence) here: https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices
These patches proposed long time ago are irrelevant, because eSpeak project is inactive since disappearance of Jonathan Duddington. Active development and support now happens in eSpeak NG project https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng maintained by Reece H. Dunn. Mailing list of espeak-ng project is https://groups.io/g/espeak-ng