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Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)
TTS Engines
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„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…
- AlfaNumTTS SER (4.7@161) Ǥ 8
1 Serbian - Speech Recognition & Synthesis (4@4,172,487) Ǥ 28
- Text To Speech (TTS) (4@39,882) Ǥ 7 3
- Auto TTS (4@589; ~EUR 9.50) Ǥ 1 auto switch TTS engine to the correct language based on text
- RHVoice (3.4@1,672) 8
Github - VAJA Text-to-Speech Engine (3@391) 9 LastUpdate: 2019-01-09 English & Thai
- TTS Tool (3@37)
LastUpdate: 2019-07-21 GitLab; not an engine itself, but sometimes helps to make engines available (e.g. for OsmAnd) - Vocalizer TTS Voice (English) (2.8@9,177) Ǥ 8 50 languages (in-app purchase)
- Acapela TTS Voices (2.8@6,169) Ǥ 13
- Aharon Hebrew TTS (2.8@145) 5 LastUpdate: 2014-01-19 Hebrew & English; demo version
- eSpeak NG Text-to-Speech (2.7@1,569) Ǥ 6 3
- eSpeak (2.6@226) 0 Github
- ChineseTtsTflite (0@0) 0 LastUpdate: 2023-08-26 Github; Chinese TTS Engine Based On Tensorflow TTS
- SherpaTTS (0@0) 2 Github
Text-to-Speech converters
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- T2S: Text to Voice - Read Aloud (4.3@43,907) Ǥ 8 3 LastUpdate: 2023-01-02
- Tell Me - Text To Speech (4.2@3,742) Ǥ 9 2
- @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS) (4@134,437) Ǥ 15 4 many formats: PDF & eBooks, Word, OpenOffice …
- Speech To Text Converter (3.8@33,574) Ǥ 18 9
- Narrator’s Voice - TTS (3.7@1,275,695) Ǥ 25 6
- Text to Speech (TTS) (3.6@15,644) Ǥ 6 1 LastUpdate: 2017-04-13
- TTS Util (0@0) 4 Github
Voice-to-Text converters
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- Voice Notebook speech to text (4.7@20,546) Ǥ 21 2
- Speechnotes - Speech To Text (4.3@31,195) Ǥ 13 3
- Voice notes (4.3@13,055) Ǥ 21 27 audi recording incl. speech recognition
- Voice to text (4.2@17,727) 6 1
- Voice Notes (4.1@24,479) Ǥ 14 3
- Kõnele (4.1@218) 6 Github; Speech-to-text provider
- Speech Recognition & Synthesis (4@4,172,487) Ǥ 28
- Voice Typing Keyboard All Languages Speech to Text (4@12,684) Ǥ 13 7 LastUpdate: 2023-10-28
- Speech To Text Converter (3.8@33,574) Ǥ 18 9
- Speech To Text | Voice To Text (3.6@1,386) Ǥ 7 3
- Speech Text & Text Speech - wi (3.5@875) 6 1 LastUpdate: 2023-04-23
- Speech To Text (3.4@6,116) Ǥ 7 2 LastUpdate: 2020-04-08
- Sayboard (0@0) 6 Github; Testbericht 10/2023; free & libre voice input IME („keyboard“)
- Kõnele service (0@0) 4 LastUpdate: 2023-04-12 Github
- Seamless (0@0) 4 Github; offline text-to-speech translator
- Whisper (0@0) 11 Github; works offline after downloading the models
- sherpa-ncnn
Further Readings:
- Sprachausgabe (TTS-Engine) bei Custom-ROMs aktivieren (8/2022)
- Best Speech To Text Apps For Android (5/2020 - 12/2021)
- The 7 Best Android Dictation Apps for Easy Speech-to-Text (3/2020 - 8/2023)
- Texte vorlesen lassen – So funktioniert‘s bei Android und iOS (3/2020)
- The 7 Best Text-to-Speech Apps for Android (12/2019 - 8/2023)
- 8 Best Text-to-Speech Apps for Android (10/2019)
- How to Use Text to Speech on Android (6/2019)
- Speech to Text: Kostenlose Sprache-zu-Text für Android & iPhone (8/2018 - 10/2021)
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