Is there a Foss TTS ( it’s ok if it relies on local Ai ), I’m using RHvoice but it’s really robotic … It’s painful… 😅
Is there’s something that could compete with Google TTS which is preinstalled on stock Android ?
RHvoice is the nice sounding one. Have you tried a different voice?
There’s also eSpeak but I haven’t tried it personally
Outdated and probably unmaintained, runs 32bit code, and extremely buggy… RHvoice is leaps ahead
I’m not aware of anything that runs on android and could compete
I mean a quick Brave searching, shows some alternatives but they’re proprietary
For Android a hidden gem in terms of tts engines i have found is Sherpa-onnx. They have a page with pre-built apks here, if you can stomach finding your way in a huge list and looking for the specific architecture of your phone cpu. The voices that they offer are the best i have heard for an open source project. Still the are downsides. It is heavy on the hardware and will barely run on low end phones with long pauses between the phrases. Also you can only have installed one voice at a time. There is a huggingface space where you can try different voices in browser without installing anything here.
I can’t tell if your only asking about Android, or just comparing the Google TTS on Android to something closer to what you want.
I’m asking for something that sounds human like Google’s TTS engine
I recommend Sherpa Onnx’s TTS Engine app, using a piper voice model. I recommend Lessac Medium or Low.
THANK YOU 🤍, I can’t upvote this enough… It’s awesome and sounds human… now I can git rid of my Googled phone… 🥳
Edit: after a test run, it doesn’t seem to have a way to change the language, and installing a different apk with different language removes the old one… 😔
