On 2023-09-28, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> espeak-ng likes to have speechdispatcher on a system

Does this improve the quality of the generated speech?

> and festival likes to have language-specific voices on it to use.

Indeed.  Which one(s) do you recommend?  I tried
voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts and the mbrola us voices.

> fenrir which you didn't mention runs in user land and has no kernel
> dependencies.

I briefly tried that but failed.  Also, I was under the impression
that fenrir does produce speech by itself but relies on some TTS
implementation like espeak.  Is that wrong?

Best wishes
Jens