TTS and STT for Graphene OS

Rootus

Any recommendation regarding robust and privacy oriented text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines for Graphene? Thank you.

becomeparmesan

For STT I am using FUTO Voice Input and I can highly recommend it. Recognizes also several languages at once.

charles25565

becomeparmesan FUTO Voice Input is not open source. It is also related to some attacks towards GrapheneOS.

Rootus

Any other suggestions? What about TTS engine? It seems like this forum doesn't have many participants.

Michiel

Rootus I use SherpaTTS

DeletedUser265

Try Dicio

Rootus

Michiel How do you like it? Can you download different voices? I heard it has a very robotic voice.

Arnauld

Michiel I also use SherpaTTS, mainly for Osmand and OrganicMap for voices in French as others usually don't have French voices.

Michiel

Rootus I do not use it often. I downloaded one voice (in Dutch) and it sounds fairly natural to me.

duckduckduck

https://github.com/puff-dayo/Kokoro-82M-Android

I use kokoro on desktop, idk if this project works but the voices sound really good. supports 5 languages which is more than enough in my opinion.

JayJay

charles25565
https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/voiceinput
What is this then if not the source code?

merdely

charles25565

What do you mean "attacks towards GrapheneOS"? Do you have any references?

becomeparmesan

charles25565 ah, did not know that, thanks mate! An alternative would be the app Whisper then as both use OpenAIs Whisper models

Pocketstar

Sayboard is quite nice for VTT and works well with smaller models. (Download the models seperately from whithin the app or via the website)
https://github.com/ElishaAz/Sayboard
https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models
For TTS I would recommend Sherpa TTS
https://github.com/woheller69/ttsengine
Or the authentic robotic 80's voices from Espeak https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng

Arnauld

Pocketstar Thks for the links.

Carlos-Anso

For ~~TTS~~ STT (corrected typo) theres Transcribro on Accrecent. The app is ioen source and the developer also works on GrapheneOS.
Currently only has recognition of English, the ability to download recognition models for other languages is planned

soupslurpr

Note that Transcribro does STT (Speech to text), not TTS (Text to speech).

Carlos-Anso

soupslurpr
Ah yeah! Fat thumbed that!

wizoatk

JayJay

"Open Source" is not the same thing as Source First or Source Available. This is a licensing distinction.

https://futo.org/about/futo-statement-on-opensource/

https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/voiceinput/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Carlos-Anso

JayJay
Publishing the source code does not make something open source. A big part of the value of open source is that other people can freely take the code and start a new project based upon it. The licensing for futo apps puts significant restrictions on any derivative project.

It is a regular occurrence where the owner of a popular open source software project makes unwanted changes or kills a project and then people set up a new project that itself becomes very popular.. Often the new project includes software developers who contributed code to the original project. Sometimes even the lead developers.

The license used by futo apps makes this very unlikely to ever happen.

VEECCdYKYi

Carlos-Anso
True.
It doesn't give the user the open source freedom.
But with the code available, the code can atleast be audited and you can check for any privacy invasive practices. But i agree the licence aint good. The regular old open source licences works just fine and should be used instead.

charles25565

I'll leave it up to the project account to discuss that, but a FUTO employee is well known for attacking GrapheneOS and engaging on a site where other users aim to attack GrapheneOS.

1qkv9ddu3so2irvz

I prefer Whisper (https://github.com/woheller69/whisperIME) as an STT. It even understands dialects and works very well all in all.