[dented42]

That’s not a far comparison. Say just calls the speech synthesis APIs that have been around since at least Mac OS 8.

That being said, the ‘classical’ (pre-AI) speech synthesisers are much smaller than kitten, so you’re not wrong per se, just for the wrong reason.

[deathanatos]

The linked repository at the top-level here has several gigabytes of dependencies, too.