I removed the Google Speech engine (robotic voice to give human-like voice to apps) and I looking for a new one in F-droid. I interested in both English and Italian voices.
Any idea?
If you don’t mind it being terribly robotic, eSpeak supports a ton of languages and it’s very lightweight (mainly because the method of synthesis does not require a big database of voice samples).
At first it might be jarring if you are used to natural-sounding voices, but I think it’s possible to get used to it, and some people seem to actually prefer it.
Or you might be able to install MBROLA as a backend for eSpeak which should make it sound more natural, although I’ve never tried doing that in Android, personally (EDIT: it seems MBROLA isn’t yet supported in Android, sadly).
eSpeak seems Frankenstein and doesn’t work with Feeel home workout app. Maybe the issue is in the fitness app. But that voice…an horror movie…
TTS Util is worth giving a shot
It seams just a tts manager not an engine. It sees empty the engine field…
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@DepressedDove @bkrl can you make a tutorial on that? To make it work…
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@DepressedDove sorry maybe is a silly question but what is RH? Thanks
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I use these for various functions
- https://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.dicio.dicio_android/
- https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.pilot51.voicenotify/
- https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
I also have Vosk Keyboard installed, but I think I installed that manually from a link in FlorisBoard.
Dicio is a voice-driven assistant. I think what you asked for was the second item, VoiceNotify. It’s not a screen reader, though, just a notification reader. It works well for that. One (or more) of them depends on RHVoice, which provides the engine.
I don’t know if any of them provide Italian; I think RHVoice’s developers are Russian, since the main default model is Russian. I’m using the english model and out works fine.
Unfortunately RH doesn’t have Italian.
You could be part of the solution!
https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/wiki/Creating-a-new-voice-for-RHVoice.
Did you finally find a solution? I’m looking for the same thing
