[jnpatel]

I've been a long-time user for OS X's built in text-to-speech [0].

IMO, it actually performs pretty robustly on these examples. Is Apple still using just diphones, or are they post-processing in some way?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk#Text-to-speech_in_Ma...

[visarga]

I'm using Alex to read articles and comments. I love the Alex voice but it sometimes makes stupid mistakes.

I hope we will have decent TTS for linux too.

[krackers]

Fyi they added newer, (imo) better quality voices since alex debuted in 10.5. My personal favorite is Kate (english UK voice) and Tessa (english - south africa)