Afaik GPS can be jammed to prevent using it for geolocation. Especially in warfare this is quite common

I added the same link also to the text so that you can find it there too.

Click on either of these links, they are the same

No the main link in the post is exactly the same.

Uhm that is the site I have linked

Trust me, I checked 3 times and that tiny link isnt making it easier XD

Yeah well you need a .apk XD

just search for

• your language
• your android architecture (normally modern phones use arm64 or aarch64 or arm v8a
• your preferred model, or just try out all

Example

https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-apk/resolve/main/tts-engine-new/1.10.29/sherpa-onnx-1.10.29-arm64-v8a-de-tts-engine-vits-piper-de_DE-thorsten-medium.apk

Search, click on link, install, open app, open android settings, search for tts, enable the app as tts

your language abbreviation like “de” or “en”

Nice, thanks!

Thorsten high is silly haha. Emotional is also not meant for TTS more for research I think.

I think thorsten made the only good model in German, I really want to make my own one! Or get some famous people on board?

Hahaha yes it is.

Whats that? Mind to share an audio file?

They have 3 types of clients, only one works as an Android TTS engine, the others are useless.

Yes they have 3 types of client apps

Yes of course :) I use sherpa-onnx-1.10.26-arm64-v8a-de-tts-engine-vits-piper-de_DE-thorsten-medium and there is nothing irrelevant in that name.

Still after another commenter wrote how overwhelmed they are with that INSANE download page, I felt that when you dropped those 2 names

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

These names are a joke hahaha

Just scroll down until the page is fully loaded and use the search function.

I mentioned espeak at least somewhere. It is 32bit and likely unmaintained. And the Android version is already better than what I had on Fedora KDE.

Yes, something like improved espeak would be fine and extremely efficient. But this works fine too.

Modern phones have NPUs for low power neural network tasks like those. Older ones hopefully use the GPU for that.

The apps are pretty flawed in that they have only one model.

And it is very impressive how espeak can do so much, so efficiently.

Its simply that nobody created a better voice model (and removed all the silly joke okes) for it, and ported the APK to modern Android with armv8a (64bit)

It is FOSS, and the build instructions are here

https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/android/build-sherpa-onnx.html

Those guys are incredibly active, look at this!

https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/index.html

(And no, not on F-Droid, if you look at the crazy amount of packages that makes sense)

Speech to text exists with FUTO keyboard and whisper.

Espeak is the only TTS for german, and it is 32bit and sounds awful. It is quite embarassing to use that for navigating with other people used to… modern voices.