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This question was asked here, four years ago: Natural Sounding Text to Speech?

However, text-to-speech is something that's still improving and evolving fast, and all of the answers yield software that sounds tinny or unnatural. I know that no TTS will be perfect, but I'm positive there must be better solutions now in 2015.

The size of the package doesn't matter; it doesn't have to be lightweight, it can be bloated for all I care; I only care about the end result. It only has to be free and available for Ubuntu.

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I've used MaryTTS for a while and I think it's (most likely) the best TTS engine for Ubuntu. It British and American English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, and Telugu with more languages down the line.

It also offers the choice of creating a new voice, so you can tailor it to suit your needs.

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  • I can't find any installation documentation (the docs are all about the architecture), and the online demo doesn't work...
    – felwithe
    Feb 26, 2015 at 3:40
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    You can download the install package from the MaryTTS website (mary.dfki.de/download/releasenotes-5.0.html) and follow the instructions from that page.
    – imelgrat
    Feb 26, 2015 at 11:21
  • I somehow wasn't able to find that no matter where I looked. Thanks, I will try it out.
    – felwithe
    Feb 26, 2015 at 14:43
  • I see it at the link you provided but don't see how to make it work. I want a cron job that will speak the time at the top of each hour.
    – SDsolar
    Nov 18, 2017 at 1:58
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If Chrome Extension is ok - you can try Intelligent Speaker. I am the author so your feedback is welcome :)

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  • doesnt work for me. Complains about internet connection problems although my wifi works perfectly Dec 30, 2017 at 15:00
  • What is your current version? You can get in on chrome://extensions/?id=eidcpcpmmfiolomceegcagooodnaplmp Dec 30, 2017 at 20:41

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