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 ?
I recommend Sherpa Onnx’s TTS Engine app, using a piper voice model. I recommend Lessac Medium or Low.
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… 😔
RHvoice is the nice sounding one. Have you tried a different voice?
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.
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.
There’s also eSpeak but I haven’t tried it personally
Outdated and probably unmaintained, runs 32bit code, and extremely buggy… RHvoice is leaps ahead
