so i yes, espeak exists and still sounds terrible even worse than picoTTS (last update 4 yrs ago?). so what else is there? i look at mimic3 and it says they are dead and one should go for piper here: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3 the link to piper followed I get: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper "This repository was archived by the owner on Oct 6, 2025. It is now read-only. "

ok, so coqui? https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS no update in over 12 months…how bad can it be? https://coqui.ai/ …great it is a page for gambling now.

so, what are you using? gTTS is not offline.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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      21 days ago

      I have kaldi auto updated with my preferred voice when ever there is a new release via obtainium.

      I set kaldi as my tts engine, and I disabled the google TTS.

      Then anytime I use TTS on my phone it uses kaldi.

      Its been really great for my preferred eBook reader (Librera) so I can do chores and read at the same time.