I’m looking for a straightforward way to get real-time text-to-speech (TTS) on Manjaro Linux. I’d like to be able to copy/paste a block of text and start listening to it right away. I’ve seen scripts that split text into sentences and feed them to models like the smallest Kokoro TTS. Does anyone have a simple-to-install solution or script for this on Manjaro?
For setting up and selecting Piper TTS voices, use Pied. Then use KMouth by KDE to have an app to paste text in an make use of Piper TTS voices.