A Python script makes the Pi take a picture of the text. Then it uses Tesseract OCR to convert the image to plain text, and runs the text through a speech synthesis engine which reads it aloud.

Bark is a universal text-to-audio model that can not only create realistic speech, it can incorporate music, background noises, and sound effects. It can even include non-speech sounds like laughte… ...

A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech ... The startup offers both a Python library and CLI tool to further streamline deployment.

On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample.