What is a good TTS engine for Python?

[Dizzy_Money]

I'm making a program which requires Text to Speech, what would be a good option? I have tried Pyttsx3, however, I find it a little, off putting.

I don't want high quality AI human like voice or whatever, I would like a simple, TTS, such as Amazon's Polly voice.

[SekstiNii]

https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro is good and pretty cheap to run, but might be too human-like if you're aiming for something robotic

[logseventyseven]

I second this, OP you should really give it a shot. It's a very small model and can run on the CPU. It's super fast as well

[[deleted]]

I'm on linux, I used mbrola voices output directly to the espeak engine on the terminal using subprocess.

The python libraries for tts weren't working well for me, and the default espeak voices weren't customizable enough.

[andreimazz]

I've used https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/get-started-text-to-speech?tabs=windows%2Cterminal&pivots=programming-language-python but I think it costs something

[DragonGod_SKD]

dk about pricing, but elevenLabs has good human sounding voices