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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?

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[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TTS Util is worth giving a shot

[–] bkrl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It seams just a tts manager not an engine. It sees empty the engine field...

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 9 months ago

Did you finally find a solution? I'm looking for the same thing

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] bkrl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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...

[–] KlavsKlavsen@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 years ago

@bkrl @Ferk could be fine for @microg instead of zero voice for f.ex. osmand, when using navigation :( its my biggest annoyance for microg vs. Google services

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] sxan@midwest.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use these for various functions

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.

[–] bkrl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately RH doesn't have Italian.