Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (STT)
TTS Engines
2025-03-11
„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@156) Ǥ 8
1 Serbian
- Speech Recognition & Synthesis (4.1@3,965,178) Ǥ 12
- Auto TTS (4@589; ~EUR 9.50) Ǥ 1
auto switch TTS engine to the correct language based on text
- Text To Speech (TTS) (3.8@31,245) Ǥ 7
3
- RHVoice (3.8@1,534) 8
Github
- VAJA Text-to-Speech Engine (3@391) 9
LastUpdate: 2019-01-09 English & Thai
- TTS Tool (3@37) 0
LastUpdate: 2019-07-21 GitLab; not an engine itself, but sometimes helps to make engines available (e.g. for OsmAnd)
- Vocalizer TTS Voice (English) (2.9@9,009) Ǥ 8
50 languages (in-app purchase)
- Acapela TTS Voices (2.8@6,085) Ǥ 13
- Aharon Hebrew TTS (2.8@145) 5
LastUpdate: 2014-01-19 Hebrew & English; demo version
- eSpeak NG Text-to-Speech (2.7@1,500) 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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- TTS Util (4.8@5) 2
LastUpdate: 2022-08-23 Github
- @Voice Aloud Reader (TTS) (4.3@131,417) Ǥ 14
7
many formats: PDF & eBooks, Word, OpenOffice …
- T2S: Text to Voice/Read Aloud (4.3@43,051) Ǥ 11
3
LastUpdate: 2023-01-02
- Tell Me - Text To Speech (4.2@3,640) Ǥ 9
2
- Speech To Text Converter (3.8@33,297) Ǥ 17
3
- Narrator’s Voice - TTS (3.7@1,266,026) Ǥ 25
14
- Text to Speech (TTS) (3.6@15,685) Ǥ 6
1
LastUpdate: 2017-04-13
Voice-to-Text converters
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- Voice Notebook speech to text (4.6@19,835) Ǥ 21
3
- Speechnotes - Speech To Text (4.3@30,610) Ǥ 13
3
- Voice notes (4.3@13,026) Ǥ 21
27
audi recording incl. speech recognition
- Voice to text (4.2@16,970) 6
1
- Speech Recognition & Synthesis (4.1@3,965,178) Ǥ 12
- Kõnele (4.1@218) 6
Github; Speech-to-text provider
- Voice Notes (4@24,468) Ǥ 14
3
- Voice Typing Keyboard All Languages Speech to Text (4@12,684) Ǥ 13
7
- Speech To Text Converter (3.8@33,297) Ǥ 17
3
- Speech To Text | Voice To Text (3.8@1,156) Ǥ 7
3
- Speech Text & Text Speech - wi (3.5@877) 6
1
LastUpdate: 2023-04-23
- Speech To Text (3.4@6,136) 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) 3
Github; offline text-to-speech translator
- Whisper (0@0) 8
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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