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This question was asked here, four years ago: Natural Sounding Text to Speech?

However, text-to-speech is something that's still improving and evolving fast, and all of the answers yield software that sounds tinny or unnatural. I know that no TTS will be perfect, but I'm positive there must be better solutions now in 2015.

The size of the package doesn't matter; it doesn't have to be lightweight, it can be bloated for all I care; I only care about the end result. It only has to be free and available for Ubuntu.

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I've used MaryTTS for a while and I think it's (most likely) the best TTS engine for Ubuntu. It British and American English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, and Telugu with more languages down the line.

It also offers the choice of creating a new voice, so you can tailor it to suit your needs.

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If Chrome Extension is ok - you can try Intelligent Speaker. I am the author so your feedback is welcome :)

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