Debian unstable user here (and also Gentoo on a different PC) - I've removed PulseAudio for a couple of months now, and everything works nicely (including a Bluetooth headset and HDMI audio out) with PipeWire and WirePlumber - the only hiccup was an old manual configuration I had for ALSA to use PulseAudio as default audio sink, which needed to be removed.
According to Wikipedia, "first century AD is the most probable guess" for the stele's age. By that time, pronunciation was probably nearer to the modern language than to Ancient Greek, although, of course, not exactly the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek_phonology#Popular_...
Even Modern Greek, despite the homogenization effect of modern communications, still has local dialects which sound very different from one another and aren't easily intelligible to speakers of the standard dialect.
I was a heavy It's All Text! user, too, and fortunately, an alternative exists, implemented just as you describe. See: https://github.com/jlebon/textern
Well, it looks like a nice book and you can read it online or download it (there's a link at the top). The "Brainfilling" title is probably a pun to make the title more interesting.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but the Grand Comics Database (http://www.comics.org) is an fan non-profit effort to index all comic books worldwide. We don't have an API, although we'd like to - it's mostly that we have no clear requirements yet, and since all data is available as a DB dump under CC-BY, there's not much push for one.
The project is now in its 20th year and this shows in that the database schema isn't as canonicalized as could be (for example, creator credits and character fields are just text fields and not DB references. Yet slowly but surely improvements are being made, faster in the last couple of years.
We could use some help if anybody is interested - our code is GPL (https://github.com/GrandComicsDatabase/gcd-django) and since the dev team is limited and everything happens on our free time, all kinds of help are appreciated.
I haven't tested Jack compatibility yet.