I’m trying to find a replacement for NaturalReader in Linux but I’m not finding anything as good.
I have played around with different engines, such as Espeak (too robotic), Mozilla TTS and Coqui, and Piper. But I’m looking for an application, not just an engine, something that would allow me to open up a PDF, pick a spot and read from there, then be able to move back and forth on the document. Ideally, I would like to also be able to tell the application how to pronounce certain words.
I haven’t figured out how to make Okular use The best I have found is ReadAloud, but it’s just a browser addon. Okular doesn’t seem to be able to use something like Piper EDIT: but Pied exists: https://github.com/Elleo/pied which makes it work.
Any ideas?
(I use Debian btw :P )
I am using Linux Mint and only discovered text-to-speech platforms exist recently. Could you advice a beginner on which one to use? Do I have to install it from the software manager or use the terminal to install whatever is recommended? Not very tech savvy, but not naïve either.