This is a test of the Pied Piper setup on Pearl Linux
Simply sample the various voices available in many languages, and finally select the natural sounding voice you prefer
The voice model you have chosen through Pied, pipes into the Piper TTS engine and outputs on the speech dispatcher app
Pearl has added a script called speak selection
Highlight the text you want spoken to you and use the keyboard shortcut to speak it to you use Alt+s, and if you want TTS to stop speaking to you use Alt+x
Unlike many other text to speech options out there, after downloading your favorite voice models, PiedPiper from Pearl is an engine that does not require you to be online,
Finally natural sounding text to speech has come to Linux, We hope you enjoy PiedPiper on Pearl Linux.