Running a local Piper TTS server with Python on Linux

Until I can figure out if and how to do voice cloning on my dGPU-less desktop potato, I've been using Piper to make audiobooks out of my ebooks and its been pretty good!

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=pLR5AsbCMHs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.