Now that there are so many realistic voices due to ai tech, Are there text to speech engines available for android?

The Samsung text to speech engine and Speech Services by google, I used Ivona in the past.

Just curious.

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There have been a lot of these, particularly Google text to speech which is ubiquitous and I remember having used Ivona text to speech back in the day which was awesome but was suited more towards navigation so it frequently mispronounced words with those of navigation. Nowadays the TTS market is mostly these older apps, using the default ones (Google's) or paid services like speechify.

What if I told you there are local neural TTS engines for android that work pretty well and have flawless intonations?

Two projects which work amazingly and have android applications for them too -

• https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

• https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

You can use these on pc too. For android you can try these out by going to the apk engine's website below and downloading the desired apk (there are a lot of them) - https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

If you feel it works well, go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Text-to-speech output and enable TTS Engine as the default.

Things are going really great for on-device tts.