Piper Text-to-Speech Voices

Issues using piper

Hello

I was really excited to see this plug in as I like piper a lot. Thanks for making it. Unfortunately, there are issues.

I'm on Mac M1 mini, MacOS Tahoe

I have the extension installed and have downloaded lessac high and ryan high en-us voices

Using Brave browser's built in reader mode and TTS, I get some default robotic voice that's clearly not piper.

Using Google Chrome and chrome extension Reader View https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reader-view/ecabifbgmdmgdllomnfinbmaellmclnh which has 4.7 avg 1.1k rating, I get the voices but there are 2-3 second pauses between sentences. I don't have this problem with the built in voices.

I hope this can be fixed. Thanks