I was kind of waiting for Apple to ship something like this and using speechify in the meantime, so I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across Kokoro in a thread on HN a few days ago. The voices are better than the cloud provider IMO.
I'm using it in an open source tool I built for listening to coding agents instead of watching them work, and it's been great. Local, private, free to run, and enough voices that I can actually use a different one for each agent.
I'm using it in an open source tool I built for listening to coding agents instead of watching them work, and it's been great. Local, private, free to run, and enough voices that I can actually use a different one for each agent.
Wrote a bit more about the project here: https://jonmagic.com/posts/i-stopped-watching-my-agents-work...