Text to speech

[QuantiusBenignus]

Not for Joplin specifically, but for GNOME desktops (Linux, GNOME shell ver. < 45 for now), I have been using Piper (integrated with Speech Dispatcher or standalone, see repo.) in my GNOME shell extension "voluble" to read mouse-selected text. See GitHub repository. Also here.
This is the same extension that provides text-to-speech notifications of Joplin events:

Spoken notification at startup with To-Dos due today

NOTE: For Linux users (CLI or desktop app, possibly on GNOME) Now that my Joplin notifications are read out-loud with almost-human voice thanks to Voluble whenever Joplin is on, I considered the cases where I have not yet started Joplin for whatever reason (automatic startup of an Electron app is not my favorite thing and yes, there are a few days when I do not fire up Joplin). Let's say at the start of my desktop day, I would like to get an idea of the Joplin To-Dos which have alarms set for…