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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there a Foss TTS ( it's ok if it relies on local Ai ), I'm using RHvoice but it's really robotic ... It's painful.. 😅

Is there's something that could compete with Google TTS which is preinstalled on stock Android ?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I recommend Sherpa Onnx's TTS Engine app, using a piper voice model. I recommend Lessac Medium or Low.

Link: https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/index.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

THANK YOU 🤍, I can't upvote this enough.. It's awesome and sounds human.. now I can git rid of my Googled phone.. 🥳

Edit: after a test run, it doesn't seem to have a way to change the language, and installing a different apk with different language removes the old one.. 😔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

RHvoice is the nice sounding one. Have you tried a different voice?

[–] just_another_person 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell if your only asking about Android, or just comparing the Google TTS on Android to something closer to what you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm asking for something that sounds human like Google's TTS engine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Google TTS is cloud based and totally proprietary. The chances of you finding something similar low and it will very resource intensive thereby draining battery

[–] just_another_person 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Pretty sure your talking about picoTTS, which is the default Android voice. Pretty easy to implement.

There's also Piper, which was made by the current Home Assistant Voice engineer, and previous Rhasspy engineer. Super easy to use.

There's actually a ton out there that vary in ease of use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

☞ https://lemmy.ml/post/17700452

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's also eSpeak but I haven't tried it personally

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Outdated and probably unmaintained, runs 32bit code, and extremely buggy... RHvoice is leaps ahead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ah there ya go, nvm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not aware of anything that runs on android and could compete