{tag=Text-to-speech}

https://askubuntu.com/questions/501910/how-to-text-to-speech-output-using-command-line/1522885#1522885

I tried to use every single free offline <text-to-speech> engine that would run on <Ubuntu 24.04> without too much hassle to see if any of them sounded natural. #pico2wave was the overall winner so far, but it is not perfect.

I've been noticing a gap between the "<AI>" <SOTA> and what is actually packaged well enough to be usable by a general audience.

Also played a bit more with <#OpenAI Whisper>: https://askubuntu.com/questions/24059/automatically-generate-subtitles-close-caption-from-a-video-using-speech-to-text/1522895#1522895 Mind blowing performance and perfect packaging as well, kudos.

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Text-to-speech software comparison