Hello everyone! I am interested in replacing the Google Speech Recognition and Synthesis app on Android. For Speech-to-Text (STT), I’ve tried Whisper and FUTO, and settled on the latter because it seemed to be more versatile. Also, FUTO seems to have some decent recognition, but not yet capable of handling all the languages that I want. Regardless, so far happy with STT. The only annoyance I have is that it does not appear as an option in the settings for Speech recognition :(
However, I can’t seem to find any replacements that have good Text-to-Speech (TTS) quality. I tried espeak-ng and RHVoice, but both have robotic outputs.
Given the recent advancements in AI, I was expecting that there would be ways to incorporate open source TTS models like Kokoro to generate speech on the go. Nevertheless, I could not really find any such apps so far.
Has anyone managed to completely replace the Google app with (an)other privacy-focused FOSS app(s)?
I (rather seldom) use FUTO Voice for STT and SherpaTSS for TSS.
My setup exactly. I can highly recommend this approach.
Sherpa onnx is very good: https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/index.html
Apks are here: https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/android/apk.html
Sherpa is by far the best. I personally find GB southern English female medium very natural sounding
Thanks! I was actually looking at this, but I gave up because I couldn’t really figure out how to get a multilingual model running through Obtainium. I’ll try again :D
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Thanks for the suggestion! I gave this a try, but it seems that it won’t register any voice 🤔 However, it seems like it shows up in my settings, so it’s a good sign. I’ll try to get it to work :D
Weird! Worked fine out of the box for me!
Thanks for that. It works quite well.
Even though I’m using FUTO (paid for it), I don’t mind trying new things. I just wish these produced text in real-time as I sometimes dictate long-form content, and it’s unnerving to wait a while for it to process (not knowing if it actually heard everything).
I’m using one of the models here . It’s working for voice instructions for navigation in Organic Maps. It’s also showing in the text to speech menu in the android settings.
The app it’s based on (SherpaTTS) already exists on fdroid repos, but the APKs on that link has the model embedded already.
:O that’s what I was looking for and I forgot about this website! If it works, I’m going to hug you :c
