I recommend Sherpa Onnx's TTS Engine app, using a piper voice model. I recommend Lessac Medium or Low.
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THANK YOU ๐ค, I can't upvote this enough.. It's awesome and sounds human.. now I can git rid of my Googled phone.. ๐ฅณ
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.. ๐
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.
This is awesome! I picked the gb-southern_English_female and it sounds nearly real. This is a great upgrade. Thanks
RHvoice is the nice sounding one. Have you tried a different voice?
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
Pretty sure your talking about picoTTS, which is the default Android voice. Pretty easy to implement.
There's also Piper, which was made by the current Home Assistant Voice engineer, and previous Rhasspy engineer. Super easy to use.
There's actually a ton out there that vary in ease of use.
Google TTS is cloud based and totally proprietary. The chances of you finding something similar low and it will very resource intensive thereby draining battery
I'm not aware of anything that runs on android and could compete
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Outdated and probably unmaintained, runs 32bit code, and extremely buggy...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
Ah there ya go, nvm