i'm trying to search for the best tts. and finally I found that say command in mac-os terminal is the most natural speaker engine. but I want to use it in my linux OS.(Ubuntu or manjaro) Is it any way to use it in linux?
I EMPHASIS that I don't want to use espeaker. Just say command. thanks for your help
There is a command line tool called spd-say. This is found on Ubuntu as well and here are some links for some additional reference.
spd-say "some text" will say the text with the speech dispatcher.
Taken from Ubuntu Manpages:
spd-say sends text-to-speech output request to speech-dispatcher process which handles it and ideally outputs the result to the audio system.
say is a command line interface to Mac OS X Speech Synthesis Manager, which does not exist outside Apple products. So... no.
I EMPHASIS that I don't want to use espeaker. Just say command. thanks for your help
If you just want say command, you can alias an open-source engine to it; but it will not sound the same. It's not about the say command, but the TTS engine it invokes.
However, I doubt you tested all possibilities. IBM has a rather good TTS engine, which is available via a web service; so does Google. Both are free to use (up to a monthly limit). Of course, you have to be online to use those.
you can use espeak-ng https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng.
installed and tested on my arch linux.
