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Add German Language Support via espeak-ng

Closes #290

This PR gives Kokoro German language support by adding de/d language handling through espeak-ng.

German text can now be phonemized with:

pipeline = KPipeline(lang_code="de", model=False)

The CLI also accepts:

python -m kokoro -l d

German sentence chunking uses the existing non-English pipeline behavior. The implementation was verified in the project virtual environment with successful German phoneme generation.

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