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Opensource modern TTS engines for Android are now available! (k2-fsa.github.io)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I just found this.

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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[-] Rogers@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is amazing! If you are looking for US EN and use a phone with arm64 I can recommend sherpa-onnx-1.10.27-arm64-v8a-en-tts-vits-piper-en_US-kristin-medium and sherpa-onnx-1.10.27-arm64-v8a-en-tts-vits-piper-en_US-norman-medium.

Edit: I don't seem to be able to get the engine to show up as a tts engine but it works well within the tts app itself. Hopefully I'll find a fix I've been searching for a good tts engine for android eBook apps.

Edit 2. Fixed I mistakenly downloaded the standalone version from https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk.html instead of https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

These names are a joke hahaha

[-] Rogers@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 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