Some novels that I want to read don’t have audiobooks so I’m looking for a foss text to speech software that help with this.
I’ve dabbled in a couple recently, xTTS v2 in Coqui sounds pretty good and is pretty quick. Especially if you use one of the built in voices. Has a weird “only for non commercial use” licence if that bothers you.
What platform?
Here some open source text-to-speech software: https://alternativeto.net/software/naturalreader/?license=opensource
You can apply the platform filter to narrow it down.
- Okular on desktop (Linux + Windows)
- Librera Reader aka Librera FD on Android
Selecting text on both apps brings up an option for TTS
Okular
Thanks. That looks like something I needed, just not urgently enough to look for it.
no worries🤗
I’m glad this helps!
Searching for text to speech led me to this post, I am also looking for something I can share webpages to for reading. I listen to podcasts constantly and this just seems like the next logical step for news I want to read.