[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

There already is a lightweight python TTS wrapper by Joshua Milas that I used for my simple Sigil TTS plugin.

Maybe you could add the wrapper to Calibre? (The wrapper is MIT-licensed and consists of only two very small files.)

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes, that's a pure python library, so it, alongwith its dependency comtypes could just be bundled in the plugin.

I'll take another look at this option. IIRC, this was Python3-only so was a non-starter, at the time, for a calibre plugin.

@Kovid, How long do I have to get this working before the win32 stuff is removed from calibre?