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FUTO Voice Input - Privacy Respecting Speech To Text App (voiceinput.futo.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Right To Repair Advocate Louis Rossman recently announced the release of FUTO, a Text To Speech App that respects your privacy.

After having played around with FUTO on my GrapheneOS Pixel, I can honestly say it's nice to have. Using the Openboards Keyboard, I'll admit that the one thing I missed about Gboards was its text to speech capability, but I refused to use it because it logs everything said into it.

IMHO, the team that developed FUTO have created something truly special here, and I'd recommend anyone to at least try it out.

There is a one time $10 payment, but the developers have basically made this more like an opt in donation, as you can just click 'I Already Paid' and utilize the app regardless of whether you paid or not. If you try FUTO out, and like it, maybe throw them a few bucks.

Here is an invidious link of Rossman talking about FUTO and its features.

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On GrapheneOS you can disable GBoard's network (after downloading the STT model, took a day or so when I did it) and uninstall google services and it still works fine...

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interesting. I was under the impression that Google's SST required Network access.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Only to download the model, then it works offline (at least on Pixels with Tensor, not sure about the rest)

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