I’m setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?
AFAIK all of the state of the art TTS models are openly available on huggingface.co or similar. However, I’m not sure if there are nice front ends/UIs for them