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TTS voices that sound nice?

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There are multiple screenreaders but their voices simply suck. KDEs espeak has way worse voices than Android eSpeak for some reason.

There is Thorsten Voice, a grest project that sounds really nice.

Not sure if he has a espeak dataset too.

Do you know any others?

Its essential for blind people, I dont think any blind person uses Linux if they have to hear these robot voices every day.

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  • If you don't mind doing some development work, needing online connectivity, and paying for usage, AWS's Polly has some very good sounding TTS voices: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

    • Hm, as a backup that could be okay, but not working offline /without being a huge privacy problem...

    • Just please don't use one of the kid voices for technical videos, a la babywogue and their GNOME development videos.

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