Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)
TTS Engines
2021-01-03
„Engines“ provide the speech synthesis service to other apps. Most Android devices ship with Google Text-to-Speech pre-installed (some with Pico TTS). Alternatives unfortunately got rare, or seem unmaintained…
- Google Text-to-Speech (4.3@2,353,668) Ǥ 7
- AlfaNumTTS SER (4.3@51) 6
Serbian
- Auto TTS (4.1@488; ~EUR 9.50) Ǥ 1
auto switch TTS engine to the correct language based on text
- RHVoice (4.1@400) 7
Github
- eSpeak NG - with emoticons support (3.8@952) Ǥ 5
3
- eSpeak (3.6@162; ~EUR 1.25) 0
LastUpdate: 2015-10-14
- Text To Speech Tool (3.4@22) 0
GitLab; not an engine itself, but sometimes helps to make engines available (e.g. for OsmAnd)
- VAJA Text-to-Speech Engine (3.3@376) 10
LastUpdate: 2019-01-09 English & Thai
- Acapela TTS Voices (3@5,098) Ǥ 12
- Vocalizer TTS Voice (English) (2.9@6,760) Ǥ 8
2
50 languages (in-app purchase)
- Aharon Hebrew TTS (2.9@129) 6
LastUpdate: 2014-01-19 Hebrew & English; demo version
- Flite TTS Engine (0@0) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-11-08 Github
Text-to-Speech converters
2021-01-03
- Narrator's Voice (4.5@871,002) Ǥ 24
15
- @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) (4.3@101,291) 9
5
many formats: PDF & eBooks, Word, OpenOffice …
- T2S: Text to Voice - Read Aloud (4.3@15,091) Ǥ 9
4
- Text To Speech Synthesis (4.3@40) 0
LastUpdate: 2019-06-09 / Text To Speech Synthesis Pro (4.4@25) 0
- Speech To Text Converter - Voice Typing App (4.1@23,516) Ǥ 12
3
- Speech Synthesis (4.1@45) 2
- TextToMp3-text to speech(TTS) (2.3@972) Ǥ 16
5
uses online services for conversion
- TTS Util (0@0) 2
Github
Voice-to-Text converters
2021-01-03
- Voice Notebook - continuous speech to text (4.3@10,639) Ǥ 13
3
- Voice Typing Keyboard All Languages Speech to Text (4.3@6,602) Ǥ 12
3
- Voice Notes (4.2@19,150) Ǥ 10
4
- Speech Text & Text Speech - with Amazing Features (4.1@875) 6
1
- Kõnele (4.1@217) 6
Github; Speech-to-text provider
- Speechnotes - Speech To Text Notepad (4@24,515) Ǥ 13
3
- Speech To Text (3.8@4,553) Ǥ 7
2
Further Readings:
- Best Speech To Text Apps For Android (5/2020)
- Texte vorlesen lassen – So funktioniert‘s bei Android und iOS (3/2020)
- The 7 Best Text-to-Speech Apps for Android (12/2019)
- 8 Best Text-to-Speech Apps for Android (10/2019)
- How to Use Text to Speech on Android (6/2019)
- Speech to Text: Die 4 besten Apps, um Sprache umzuwandeln (8/2018)
2021-01-15