[discussion] text to voice generation for textbooks

i was listening to lex podcast on some stuff i study and wanted to ask, are there any good natural-enough sounding local text to voice models out there?

i would very much like to use it to turn the text parts of a book into an audio where i could listen to it while reading.
i used [edge's tts ](https://pypi.org/project/edge-tts/) for speech by giving a paragraph to clipboard and to edge-tts in order to listen the text but it causes …

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