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.
A few days ago I wrote down a couple of links to interesting TTS projects that I was going to look into whenever I have time, along with some brief notes.
https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS TTS + XTTS, GPU inference? 3GB model.
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper Low resource, CPU inference. 50MB model.
https://github.com/p0p4k/vits2_pytorch GPU inference? 500MB model. https://github.com/p0p4k/vits2_pytorch/discussions/27 Someone’s models for vits2