Chime Hart, le mer. 12 nov. 2025 17:21:02 -0800, a ecrit: > Are all software hi-quality solutions hampered by delays?
hi-quality means more CPU time :) The question is whether acceptable quality can be obtained with not too much CPU time. You can try to install the various speech-dispatcher-foo packages to easily see what is available. > I really like the Google TTS, but are their ways of downloading a > database, so requests wouldn't always go through their cloud > servers-and-reach > a daily limit? I don't know about the current Google TTS. There was the pico TTS, which is completely offline and available as speech-dispatcher module, which is quite good already. online TTS will always be a problem, better focus on packaging offline models which can be downloaded once for good, and kept loaded into memory so there isn't the delay of loading it. Samuel
