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Agreed. I previously worked for a well known service provider that relied on a single SQL database for queueing hundreds of jobs per second across all regions. The system was well understood by everyone at the company and the company had a surprisingly high market cap. You can get very far with the simple thing.

Google’s Text to Speech API’s WaveNet voices are nearly unmatched in terms of quality. Of course, the API is also fairly expensive.

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

You can test them out with any arbitrary text halfway down on this page.