Are there any good FOSS TTS engines?
espeak's apk doesn't seem to have been updated in 2 years and says it isn't compatible with my phone (Pixel 8a). I'm not sure if there are any decent ones. I want TTS for OSMAnd's navigation while driving. They do prerecorded voices too but those can only say prerecorded things obviously, so eg can't say specific road names.
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RHVoice. I am blind and rely on the TalkBack screen reader a lot and this is the synthesizer I use.
Thank you! I've got RHVoice working with TalkBack. It's not working with OSMAnd but I assume that's an OSMAnd issue not an RHVoice issue, so I'll go troubleshoot that
I haven't used RH Voice for OSMAnd but I do use it with Organic Maps and it works very well
tysm for this suggestion—just tried Organic Maps and it works perfectly with RHVoice! :)
Second recommendation for RHvoice, organic maps uses whatever your system tts is for its turn by turn verbal directions and I was curious if there was a good open source option, RH voice seemed decent in my time with it (switched phones and haven't set things back up)
There is also Kaldi, but it's not on F-Droid though.
https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html