[amelius]

I've been using festival under Linux.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/festival.1....

But it is quite old now and pre-dates the DL/AI era.

Does anybody know of a good modern replacement that I can "apt install"?

[sigmonsays]

I used piper with a model I found online. It's _ALOT_ better than festival afaik. I'm not sure you can apt install it though.

echo "hello" | piper --model ~/.local/share/piper/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx --output_file - | aplay

[gunalx]

You can in fact apt install piper.

[amelius]

That's a different piper.

    piper - GTK application to configure gaming devices

[gunalx]

^piper-tts exists.