i miss text-to-speech being prevalent everywhere from my mac days. it was very nice being able to do simple things like have the system narrate incoming instant messages. or take text from a feed reader and pipe it to wav.
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@icedquinn Not quite the same thing but this may be handy
https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/text-to-speech
i think mozilla was trying to sponsor a free neural TTS. the collected a dataset for one at least.