Davidy22

One day,  I woke up and decided I really wanted a program to read books to me while I lie down or do other things. I did some
research, installed Calibre and fired away and my ears bled because the default text to speech system on Fedora is espeak,
which doesn't have very pleasant voices to listen to. I tried Festival because I saw someone on the internet mention how it
had very good sound quality, and I had a blast picking out a voice I liked but when it came to putting it into use there was
just the small issue of festival being very slow to generate speech, which led to 5 second gaps between every sentence. The
next system I tried was Pico, which I've now settled on because it sounds great and works great, but I am putting pen to
paper today because Fedora does not actually have Pico in its repositories and I want to document the arduous journey it took
to set Pico as the system's default recognised text to speech engine. Mainly for myself in case I ever need to do this again
on a new machine, but also for