I actually looked into this a month or so ago, what I was looking for was just reasonable sounding simple tts driven by the cli (so heavyweight things were out,

I actually looked into this a month or so ago, what I was looking for was just reasonable sounding simple tts driven by the cli (so heavyweight things were out, as were most things with a local server, though I looked at some I think). I ended up going with pico-tts[0]. I remember looking at a few other things and left myself the following comment: # checked out mimic as well. Didn't seem great, espeak is like nails on a chalkboard # haven't checked out marytts or larynx or anything, but this is good enough™ [0] https://github.com/Iiridayn/pico-tts https://github.com/Iiridayn/pico-tts