Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)

TTS Engines

2021-07-19

„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…

Text To Speech (TTS) (4.8@6) 4 5
AlfaNumTTS SER (4.4@82) Ǥ 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Serbian
Google Text-to-Speech (4.3@2,711,897) Ǥ 10 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
RHVoice (4.2@587) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
Auto TTS (3.9@548; ~EUR 9.50) Ǥ 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ auto switch TTS engine to the correct language based on text
eSpeak NG - with emoticons support (3.8@1,076) Ǥ 6 4
Text To Speech Tool (3.6@27) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-07-21 GitLab; not an engine itself, but sometimes helps to make engines available (e.g. for OsmAnd)
eSpeak (3.3@194) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
VAJA Text-to-Speech Engine (3.2@381) 10 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-01-09 English & Thai
Vocalizer TTS Voice (English) (3.1@7,370) Ǥ 8 2 LastUpdate: 2019-07-17 50 languages (in-app purchase)
Acapela TTS Voices (3@5,335) Ǥ 12 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Aharon Hebrew TTS (2.8@144) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-01-19 Hebrew & English; demo version
Flite TTS Engine (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-11-08 Github

Text-to-Speech converters

2021-07-19

Narrator’s Voice (4.5@999,516) Ǥ 24 9
@Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) (4.4@106,990) Ǥ 10 5 many formats: PDF & eBooks, Word, OpenOffice …
Speech To Text Converter - Voice Typing App (4.2@27,321) Ǥ 12 3
Text To Speech Synthesis (4.2@42) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-06-09 / Text To Speech Pro (4.4@25) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Homework Dictator ❤️ Ultimate Text to Speech (TTS) (4.2@10) 5 2
Tell Me - Text To Speech (4.1@2,190) Ǥ 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
T2S: Text to Voice - Read Aloud (4.1@103) Ǥ 9 4
Speech Synthesis (4@48) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-07-13
Text to Speech (3.3@257) 5 1 LastUpdate: 2019-11-26 / Text to Speech Pro (3.4@5; ~EUR 3.00) 7 LastUpdate: 2019-01-21
TextToMp3-text to speech(TTS) (1.5@1,069) Ǥ 16 5 uses online services for conversion
Speech to text Pro (0@0) Ǥ 7 2
TTS Util (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
Woord Text to Speech (TTS) (0@0) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$

Voice-to-Text converters

2021-07-19

Voice Notebook - continuous speech to text (4.4@364) Ǥ 13 2
Speech to text continuous transcribe and Dictation (4.3@262) Ǥ 7 5
Speech To Text Converter - Voice Typing App (4.2@27,321) Ǥ 12 3
Voice Notes (4.2@21,302) Ǥ 10 3
Voice Typing Keyboard All Languages Speech to Text (4.2@8,918) Ǥ 12 3
Kõnele (4.1@218) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Speech-to-text provider
Speechnotes - Speech To Text Notepad (4@25,717) Ǥ 11 2
Speech Text & Text Speech - with Amazing Features (3.9@879) 6 1
Speech To Text (3.8@5,116) 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 - 6/2021)
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)

2021-07-24

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Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)

TTS Engines

Text-to-Speech converters

Voice-to-Text converters