Oggyo Thank you. Unfortunately it didn't work for me as I am French and need a French voice, not available in RHvoice.

Arnauld I just bought a Pixel 7 and unfortunately Espeak isn't supported on the Pixel 7.

What do you mean exactly that it's not supported? What's the issue you face when you try to use it?

    treequell Arnauld I just bought a Pixel 7 and unfortunately Espeak isn't supported on the Pixel 7.

    What do you mean exactly that it's not supported? What's the issue you face when you try to use it?

    It seems that Espeak can't be installed on the Pixel 7, when trying to install from F-Droid I have an error message :

    Can't install on arm64-v8a, only supported on armeabi-v7a, x86.

      Arnauld Can't install on arm64-v8a, only supported on armeabi-v7a, x86.

      For that you will need to contact the Espeak developers (provide them that error message), or try building it from source.

      But first maybe check to see if a newer version exists (perhaps fetchable from GitHub).

      15 days later

      Arnauld It seems that the version of the eSpeak app on F-Droid is the 32-bit version, which you won't be install on a Pixel 7. You can install the 64-bit version of the eSpeak app from Play Store and it works fine.

        Arnauld
        I am using OsmAnd+ with F/LOSS apps RHVoice (no GPS required).

        Turn announcements work fine.

          You can also use google "voice services". Its an option if you want.

          Its a package you can get from play store {or aurora). I think installing it would require the presence of some google components such as GFS and " play services".

          Once installed and language model downloaded, then you can block its internet access. I think that's how it works.

          Further, the google play components can also be disabled after installation. However this can cause apps installed after the google component installation to see the components and use the google notification system, which wont work cause you have disabled the components. So certain apps needing notifications that rely on google components for delivery, wont receive them if you disable the components. Just fyi

            User2288 Thank you, but I chose not to use Google products. So I will use my old Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS on which is installed Espeak for my GPS with Osmand :-), untill I find a solution :-)

            Arnauld there is no french language and I live in France.

            That's strange that's missing. Sorry, I didn't even notice that french was missing even though I live in a bilingual french/english city/country!

            2 months later

            FWIW, I use Magic Earth for navigation.
            It brings its own TTS engine with a boatload of supported languages including French.

            Aurora Store is a good alternative frontend to the Play Store to avoid accessing google services directly

            6 months later

            I tried Espeak tts, but I found the voices of very poor quality. I searched a bit more, and eventually I found this tts engine for Android. It has awesome voices, including French and many other languages.
            The app is in Chinese, but you only need to select your preferred language/voice. It can be set as system tts engine, so it's great for maps and other apps.

              Well, it's not made by Google. It seems to be open source, since its code is on github. I am not able to check the code for privacy or security flaws, or compile it myself. But maybe someone else can?

              The app does seem to connect to api2.amplitude.com, which is blocked by my DNS filter. Fortunately it still works without being able to connect to that api.

              I just found out that api2.amplitude.com is part of Here WeGo, the Android maps app I have been testing (distributed by Audi/BMW/Mercedes). So that api has nothing to do with the tts app I mentioned above.

              a month later

              Speech to text is obviously a lock - I use FUTO with no problems.
              BUT, text to speech for text messages is a lot harder.
              Is anyone using an engine for this action that is actually reliable and working as it should.
              FYI - a search of the forum did not produce any positive results.
              Thanks.

              a month later

              I use RHvoice, but it's not great imo. Is eSpeak-NG better?