I've been using Nvidia's parakeet model, it's been better than Whisper v3 large and smaller. Only supports English.
I'm sticking with Whisper as it is fast enough for my use case.
Would it run on a raspberry pi?
If this is for personal use the best local TTS is to grab a Mac, set the system voice to one of the current Siri voice models, and then use the 'say' command in the terminal. Yes, really. The nonbinary voice #5 in particular does really well at technical terminology.