I apologize, I didn't realize in which community I was posting
You may be thinking of Scarface. When Tony Montana exchanges dollars for pesos 🤷♂️
Not trying to convince you or anything, but the pairing process can be done via web, without installing the app.
Staying away from meta products is, in any case, a good idea.
i believe someone released an unofficial UI on github, but i couldn't tell you the name of the repo anymore
Have a look at dokku, which is a self hosted heroku alternative https://dokku.com/
Oh yeah, and sorry, i didn't realize this was linux4noobs, i should have suggested simpler solutions from the get go :)
You do well not trusting insecure sites - i think the maintainers of marytts just misconfigured their server.
If you don't use it already, maybe you should skip it for now - it's a bit of a can of worms - but in simple terms docker is a technology that bundles a software program with all of the other software that application needs to run, such as an operating system, third-party software libraries, etc.
You could give espeak-ng a try. You can install it via mint's software manager. You can then run it from the terminal like so
$ espeak-ng hello!
The problem with espeak is that the voices are very, very robotic. You could try different voices by using the -v command (espeak-ng -ven-us hello!). You can also list available voices for a language like so: espeak-ng --voices=en.
If you don't mind copy-pasting the text you could use the maryTTS web client available here . It has several voices for a handful of languages.
This could be a bit overkill, but there is also [a docker image[(https://github.com/synesthesiam/docker-marytts) with high-quality voices that you could run with docker:
$ docker run -it -p 59125:59125 synesthesiam/marytts:5.2
After that you should now be able to access the server at http://localhost:59125 . But then again this may be too much if you dont already need docker in your pc.