Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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I found the app you wanted! Speech Note on Flathub
Is that Linux only?
Yes. DS Note from the AUR can provide the same functionality, apparently.
I'd like this too, but I'm not sure it one app to do this exists. You can use vosk for dictation in multiple languages, various different open source text translation tools, and then use espeak to narrate in multiple languages. I don't know if anyone's put them together like that yet though.
But I think espeak doesn't sound that great. There is probably better open source TTS now.
rhasspy's Piper tts is a good engine and has some good models for English and Spanish. Integrated into some apps but isn't difficult to code into an app.
Hows Piper stack up to something like Coqui, Tortoise, orBark?
Its very light to run even on just CPU (faster than realtime) and has decent quality. Good enough I made a personal project to turn books into audio books. But quality isn't its main selling point. I think its better than googles tts but that isn't saying much.