You might find this interesting if you haven’t seen it already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU&t=416s&pp=ygURc2t5...

It's sad there is still not a free, open source, good and trivial to install TTS on Linux. Espeak often still remains the only practical option

Very interesting. Are you imagining this as an API that can be used for video game characters?

I have not had any luck getting TTS working. Some strange runtime errors.