It seems kind of insane how hard it’s been to find a good TTS app. I have TTS Util and that’s worked sporadically but if I get it to start it will stop in the middle of reading. I can’t even seem to find a basic app to let me paste in text and have it read.
Any recommendations? I’m mostly trying to have web articles read aloud and I don’t care about robotic voices that much.
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SherpaTTS, available on F-Droid, and usable as default text to speech, system wide.
On Firefox browser I use this extension to read pages https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/android/addon/read-aloud/
Love sherpa, I use it a lot, however I am not sure this is what they wanted. I think they wanted an application that can reliably invoke the TTS engine?
If I copy and paste into Sherpa it seems to do a good job. It’s maybe one or two extra steps than I’d like but it’s the best solution so far.
Android had built-in tts under it’s accessibility settings. I’ve worked with virtually impaired people and they use that to negotiate the phone, read text messages, use apps, etc. Are you looking for specific features not available there?
Am I trying to use it incorrectly? I have been trying to highlight the text I want read, and used the share menu. As I said often nothing happens or sometimes it will start reading then suddenly stop about 30 words in.
I haven’t used it extensively but they way I’ve seen it used it with the TTS button that stays on screen. You activate it and then highlight what you want read with a general selection box. The other method is activate it and just press play for it to read everything on screen. I’m not sure if it’ll autoscroll if you are using it for a long article on a webpage
Try SayIt. Maybe, that can work for you?
