I'm trying to get TTS working on OSM, but I read that you have to have a TTS engine outside of the app. Any recommendations for an FOSS (and private) TTS engine from f-droid?

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not from f-droid, but Piper TTS models are great and performant. You can install the apk and the app requires no permissions. They also have other models other than Piper (eg Coqui). For English, I recommend recommend vits-piper-en_US-lessac-medium for the model.

Here is a link to the list of prebuilt APKs: https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

Here is the Github repo: https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

[–] 31337@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks. So much better than RHVoice.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for this. Maybe I didn't have it configured right before but after installing this engine I finally got TTS to work.

[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 1 day ago

The best TTS engine I found is from the Kaldi project. They have a bunch of different pre built apks with different voices based on sherpa-onnx or piper models.

https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

RHVoice worked for me.