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OpenAI Whisper model is open source and can be run locally. There is a "light" version also to help it run on lower resourced machines, e.g local machine perhaps

Windows and Mac systems have this built in now, with a variety of voices. It's usually grouped under accessibility settings. Would that work?

Check out Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Note: I tried to run it on MacOS and had an issue with Python compatibility - ended up running it in a Docker container, got it working fine. If you experience the same issue, let me know - happy to share the code.

I'll check that out. Thanks.

Free Local Text to Speech?