I just found this.

APKs for TTS engines

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This is huge!

As a german, I use thorsten medium as he simply made the best dataset.

Mixing english with german, speaking numbers, single letters, pausing without a “.” but just a linebreak, all those can be essential.

And… it is nearly perfect! And all local!

This is crazy!

eSpeak can finally go to rest!

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    1 month ago

    Yeah IMO they need an app that can download/manage models directly

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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      1 month ago

      That would then require running code from memory, which needs to be enabled in recent GrapheneOS. But all fine, they should absolutely do that as they obviously do that currently but during compilation.

      Client app + wizard to select language and model type + downloaded model