Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)

TTS Engines

2022-09-12

„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…

RHVoice (4.4@957) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
AlfaNumTTS SER (4.3@100) Ǥ 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Serbian
Text To Speech (TTS) (4.1@4,410) 6 2
Auto TTS (4@589; ~EUR 4.00) Ǥ 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ auto switch TTS engine to the correct language based on text
eSpeak (3.3@202) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
Text To Speech Tool (3.3@32) 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)
Acapela TTS Voices (3.1@5,665) Ǥ 12 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
VAJA Text-to-Speech Engine (3@391) 9 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-01-09 English & Thai
Speech Services by Google (2.9@3,370,211) Ǥ 13 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Vocalizer TTS Voice (English) (2.8@8,258) Ǥ 8 2 50 languages (in-app purchase)
eSpeak NG - with emoticons sup (2.8@1,254) Ǥ 6 3
Aharon Hebrew TTS (2.8@145) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-01-19 Hebrew & English; demo version
Flite TTS Engine (0@0) 3 LastUpdate: 2016-11-08 Github

Text-to-Speech converters

2022-09-12

Text To Speech Synthesis (4.3@43) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-06-09 / Text To Speech Pro (4.2@26) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-04-28
@Voice Aloud Reader (4.2@118,288) Ǥ 15 4 many formats: PDF & eBooks, Word, OpenOffice …
T2S: Text to Voice/Read Aloud (4.2@27,931) Ǥ 11 3
Tell Me - Text To Speech (4.1@2,583) Ǥ 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Narrator’s Voice - TTS (4@1,154,403) Ǥ 25 14
Speech To Text Converter (3.9@30,183) Ǥ 12 3
Homework Dictator ❤️ Ultimate (3.8@12) 5 2 LastUpdate: 2020-03-02
Text to Speech (TTS) (3.6@15,221) Ǥ 6 1 LastUpdate: 2017-04-13
Text to Speech (3.6@312) 5 1 LastUpdate: 2019-11-26 / Text to Speech Pro (3.4@5; ~EUR 3.00) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-01-21
TextToMp3-text to speech(TTS) (2.5@1,207) Ǥ 16 5 LastUpdate: 2020-08-30 uses online services for conversion
Speech Synthesis (1@49) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-07-13
Speech to text Pro (0@0) Ǥ 7 2 LastUpdate: 2020-02-21
TTS Util (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
Woord Text to Speech (TTS) (0@0) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-05-07

Voice-to-Text converters

2022-09-12

Voice Notebook speech to text (4.5@16,128) Ǥ 13 2
Speechnotes - Speech To Text N (4.4@28,042) Ǥ 13 2
Voice Notes (4.2@23,621) Ǥ 11 3
Kõnele (4.1@218) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Speech-to-text provider
Speech To Text Converter (3.9@30,183) Ǥ 12 3
Voice Typing Keyboard Easy App (3.8@11,814) Ǥ 7 7
Speech To Text | Voice To Text (3.8@281) 6 1
Speech Text & Text Speech - wi (3.6@880) 6 1
Speech To Text (3.4@5,742) Ǥ 7 2 LastUpdate: 2020-04-08
Kõnele service (0@0) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-12-16 Github

Further Readings:

Sprachausgabe (TTS-Engine) bei Custom-ROMs aktivieren (8/2022)
Best Speech To Text Apps For Android (5/2020 - 12/2021)
Texte vorlesen lassen – So funktioniert‘s bei Android und iOS (3/2020)
The 7 Best Text-to-Speech Apps for Android (12/2019 - 5/2022)
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)

2022-09-19

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Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)

TTS Engines

Text-to-Speech converters

Voice-to-Text converters