Text-to-Speech

Use pocket-tts for local text-to-speech. It is installed at ~/.local/bin/pocket-tts and is usually on PATH. Pass -q to keep logs quiet.

Start with the CLI help when details matter:

pocket-tts --help
pocket-tts generate --help
pocket-tts export-voice --help

Speak Aloud

Generate into a temporary directory, play it, then remove it: