I've been trying to set up reasonable TTS on my linux machine again for the Nth time in many years. Each time I've tried in the past I've failed because either the TTS voices have been such low quality they're literally incomprehensible (still), the programs themselves have so many problems they're essentially impossible to use, or downstream programs don't accept installed TTS programs (eg: speech-dispatcher) / the tooling is bad

My conclusion: native TTS on linux is still *completely and utterly fucked beyond comprehension*. Time to install balabolka in wine for the Nth time I guess