If not I am honestly open to starting a support thing and donating money to it to get this feature on linux. Is there ANY good and easy TTS on linux? I'm talking about one with GUI b/c lets be honest, going through the terminal everytime is not efficient. They are A LOT of people that use text to speech. The sound through a VM is a much lower quality and lets be honest is simply not efficient and this should be something that linux needs to have. I tried read speaker which has a web feature with some of the Ivona's voice but on the fastest voice it still reads slow and lags like hell with many other issues.

Text Aloud for example installed but wouldn't launch. The old guides that i have found didn't end up working. The best voices from my experience are Ivona Salli (my go to) & Jennifer and I use them with Text Aloud software (but I am open to other high-quality voices and software). Specifications Clear and naturally-sounding IVONA TTS 22 kHz voices TTS voices available in 32/64-bit versions SAPI 5 interface support Simple installation and activation Automatic updates Hardware requirements Windows, 1 GHz, 512MB RAM. Now I have spent so many days trying to get a good one working on mint that I have lost count. Download here and test a free, fully functioning 30-day trial version of the voice. My job requires me to basically study all day, every day, so it's not like I can easily keep switching b/w windows & linux. Choose a natural and clear voice from a wide selection of IVONA text-to-speech voices. Salli - American English voice with Speech2Go. I have a lot of learning disabilities and one thing that I need is a good TTS. In 2013 & after 4 Years of Beta they announced 'Amazon Polly will replace the IVONA Speech Cloud Beta service'.

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