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Yeah, so I dug into it, and it's definitely not offline. It uses gtts, which ultimately makes calls to google.com for the tts. You can track it down yourself, but you'll eventually end up here, which talks about how to change the google host name in case it's blocked.
I'm not sure why you believe not needing an API key means it isn't calling a Google API, especially in this case where it clearly states it's using an unofficial channel - which is the same trick third party YouTube clients use to access YouTube videos without using API keys.