Lol. Amarok is essentially dead. But Strawberry is in very active development and has already made the jump QT6. Source: about 1 year ago

I was looking for KDE music players. Only Amarok and Elisa are KDE projects out of the ones you listed. KDE's six music players (yes I found another one) are Amarok, AudioTube, Elisa, JuK, Soundcloud Player for Plasma Bigscreen (great name) and Vvave. Source: over 1 year ago

I was looking through the Multimedia section of apps.kde.org because I was wondering how many music players KDE has (five of them, excluding video players and including Amarok, which is missing from the list, because apparently KDE considers it unmaintained even though it still works perfectly fine and regularly gets fixes from random contributors, which is the state many other "maintained" KDE projects like... Source: over 1 year ago

Anyone else reminded of https://amarok.kde.org? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Amarok is quite full-featured https://amarok.kde.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

I know it's old at this point and doesn't use the fancy new tech, but Mycroft's Mimic 3 is still pretty impressive and is small enough to fit comfortably and generate speech in real time on a raspberry pi [0]. Some of their voices are better than others, but the best of them are definitely equal to the examples of WhisperSpeech given here. [0] https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

So dumb, use Mimic3 for free, and you can also use SMML tags so you can change voices for different characters, and modulate the speech to better fit the book! Source: about 1 year ago

You might want to check out Mimic 3 by the Mycroft team. Its also open source and runs offline. https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I started out with mycroft which has mimic 3 build in. But you can run it just stand alone as well and quite easy to set up. https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/. Source: over 1 year ago

So far the Mimic3 from Mycroft has been the best I've seen. With the hifi-tts_low being my favorite English voice. It also support SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) which can allow for more fine tuning on the output (like volume, changes voices, speach rate, specific Phonemes, etc). Source: over 1 year ago