Hi everyone,
I’m trying to find a reliable Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) solution for Manjaro Linux that can read a text file and output a wav audio file or similar. I recently tried using Kokoro‑TTS:
uv tool install kokoro-tts
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin
But when I ran:
kokoro-tts --help-languages
it only lists languages like en-us, fr-fr, ja, etc.—no Spanish, so it looks like the Spanish voice isn’t included.
What I’m looking for:
- An alternative TTS engine that supports Spanish (ideally
es_ES) - That runs locally on Manjaro (or Arch-compatible)
- Simple to install and use from the command line
- Reasonable naturalness (doesn’t have to be super “neural,” but better than very robotic)
Questions:
- Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
- Which are the simplest to install and use?
- Which are the most natural sounding ones?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Speech note. Support a whole lot of models and you can even do some voice cloning.