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federatingIsTooHard ,
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mimic3

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github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

mcepl ,
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Mimic is by far the best I was able to find from FLOSS TTS software.

Pantherina ,
  • Piper
  • CoquiTTS
  • spd-say
  • Tortoise TTS

Piper is also used by Torsten-voice and many other models are available. Its brilliant and like 2,5 steps away from implementation in screen readers and TTS engines. I hope this happens soon as the current engines are unbearable.

Espeak on Android for some reason is better than on KDE

0xC4aE1e5 ,

If you don’t care about your text going to evil Google, try gtts-cli.

state_electrician ,

There are alternatives listed here too: discuss.tchncs.de/post/6215470

I find all the ones like espeak, piper, festival to be awful. The voices are OK-ish, but intonation and pronunciation are so very bad. Tortoise is OK, but slow and not for long texts. Paid services like Google, AWS or Elevenlabs are miles ahead. There is a number of CUDA-based engines (provided in the comments of the post I linked) that you supposedly can use if you have a nVidia GPU available. I don’t, so they are not for me.

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