• solrize@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Um ok but is this really a big deal? Good sounding TTS is nice but crappy sounding TTS is good enough for most purposes and is fairly easy. Speech to text is way harder.

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      3 months ago

      For anyone that is dyslexic and privacy conscious it’s a pretty big deal.

      Its also nice for anyone that is only privacy conscious.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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      3 months ago

      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.