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Are there any good FOSS TTS engines? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

RHVoice. I am blind and rely on the TalkBack screen reader a lot and this is the synthesizer I use.

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

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

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

I haven't used RH Voice for OSMAnd but I do use it with Organic Maps and it works very well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

tysm for this suggestion—just tried Organic Maps and it works perfectly with RHVoice! :)

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

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)