I tried setting up some text to speech stuff years ago, and I ended just giving up. Everything kind of worked, except when it didn't. Linux generally works fin

I tried setting up some text to speech stuff years ago, and I ended just giving up. Everything kind of worked, except when it didn't. Linux generally works fine for everything else for me, but this is definitely not its strongest point. My general impression was that many tools were very much developed by people in their spare time, and just not having enough of it. In theory it could all work because all the bits are there, but there's no "chief of accessibility" that can patch things over in the various projects. The flexibility and decentralisation of the Linux ecosystem is great for some less common use cases; I wrote my own WM and some other X11 tools that work a bit quirky, but works really well for me. This would be very hard to do on Windows or macOS. But for some other less common use cases ... yeah, not so great.