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Piper is also dead, though it's also still the best option for local TTS on low-spec devices.

Kokoro is probably best local TTS overall if your target platform and hardware support it.

Piper isn’t dead. I know because I’ve been working with the team recently

Could you ask them to look at my open PR then? The macOS build has been broken for well over a year: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/pull/678

Kokoro is missing a lot of relevant languages.