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Opensource modern TTS engines for Android are now available!

Opensource modern TTS engines for Android are now available! - SLRPNK

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Piper TTS on Android is great, the project is called Sherpa Onnx. It doesn't require permissions either.

I've been using this for a few months now with Organic Maps and it's incredibly good. A few versions ago I noticed some issues with certain letter sounds but with frequent updates it now sounds so natural.
I found "vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium" to be the most natural sounding voice for English.
- Nice! It all depends on the model.
  Thorsten has spoken 23+h of audios into his main dataset, crazy

Is there a way to install multiple languages? I am would be using German and English, sometimes Italian.

RHvoice
- Only english and a few others
  
  That isn't a problem for English speaking countries. Maybe try espeak?
  I'm not sure I completely understand the need to run an AI voice on your phone. It uses a lot of resources for little gain.

Um ok but is this really a big deal? Good sounding TTS is nice but crappy sounding TTS is good enough for most purposes and is fairly easy. Speech to text is way harder.
- For anyone that is dyslexic and privacy conscious it's a pretty big deal.
  Its also nice for anyone that is only privacy conscious.
- Speech to text exists with FUTO keyboard and whisper.
  Espeak is the only TTS for german, and it is 32bit and sounds awful. It is quite embarassing to use that for navigating with other people used to... modern voices.

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