Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)
TTS Engines
2021-04-10
„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 (4.3@74) Ǥ 7
Serbian
- Google Text-to-Speech (4@30,740) Ǥ 8
- Auto TTS (4@506; ~EUR 9.50) Ǥ 1
auto switch TTS engine to the correct language based on text
- RHVoice (4@477) 7
Github
- eSpeak NG - with emoticons support (3.5@1,000) Ǥ 5
3
- Text To Speech Tool (3.5@26) 0
LastUpdate: 2019-07-21 GitLab; not an engine itself, but sometimes helps to make engines available (e.g. for OsmAnd)
- eSpeak (3.3@182) 0
- VAJA Text-to-Speech Engine (3.2@378) 10
LastUpdate: 2019-01-09 English & Thai
- Vocalizer TTS Voice (English) (3@7,072) Ǥ 8
2
LastUpdate: 2019-07-17 50 languages (in-app purchase)
- Acapela TTS Voices (3@5,224) Ǥ 12
- Aharon Hebrew TTS (2.8@137) 6
LastUpdate: 2014-01-19 Hebrew & English; demo version
- Flite TTS Engine (0@0) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-11-08 Github
Text-to-Speech converters
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- Narrator’s Voice (4.4@933,362) Ǥ 24
15
- @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader) (4.3@104,001) 9
5
many formats: PDF & eBooks, Word, OpenOffice …
- T2S: Text to Voice - Read Aloud (4.3@16,661) Ǥ 9
4
- Text To Speech Synthesis (4.2@42) 0
LastUpdate: 2019-06-09 / Text To Speech Synthesis Pro (4.4@25) 0
- Speech To Text Converter - Voice Typing App (4.1@25,710) Ǥ 12
3
- Speech Synthesis (4.1@45) 2
LastUpdate: 2019-07-13
- TextToMp3-text to speech(TTS) (1.8@1,019) Ǥ 16
5
uses online services for conversion
- TTS Util (0@0) 2
Github
Voice-to-Text converters
2021-04-10
- Voice Notebook - continuous speech to text (4.4@11,899) Ǥ 13
3
- Voice Typing Keyboard All Languages Speech to Text (4.2@7,814) Ǥ 12
3
- Voice Notes (4.1@20,321) Ǥ 10
4
- Kõnele (4.1@218) 6
Github; Speech-to-text provider
- Speechnotes - Speech To Text Notepad (4@25,123) Ǥ 13
3
- Speech Text & Text Speech - with Amazing Features (3.9@880) 6
1
- Speech To Text (3.2@74) 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)
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