Hearing your device speak
Posted on Feb 06, 2025 by
paulali
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Feb 2025, Week 6
Community News
From a prolific FOSS dev @woheller69 we now have another app, SherpaTTS, Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi. We’ve complained before about the FOSS voice situation, that while RHVoice got some updates, it’s still limited to 8 natural voices, and the new eSpeak is great, supports many voices, but the robotic synthesized sounds are harder to tune and use. Out of the LLM gold rush we hope to extract some value for the end users too, and applying their magic here appears to give some really nice results.
How good? SeeHear for yourself on the test page.
After install and the download of your language of choice, don’t forget to go to Android Settings, System, Languages, Text-to-speech and select SherpaTTS as the preferred engine. Now your apps will use it to give you directions, like Organic Maps mentioned below and OsmAnd~, read text out-loud or even your notifications (via Voice Notify).
On related apps, from the same developer even, do also try Whisper (Voice recognition speech to text: you don’t type, you just talk and magically the text appears on screen) and Seamless (After talking, the text is translated to another language).
Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline, was updated to 2025.01.26-9-FDroid. In the past we had our share of long philosophical discussions with the OM app team, say about newly added ‘features’, and about the nature of Ads but it all ended well enough from our point of view. The latest version improves upon all these, map features aside, as it fixes two of the pain points that had the app flagged with anti-features more than one year ago. The added Kayak hotel links are now a setting users need to enable if they want and the CDN servers that serve your maps finally run FOSS software.
Tubular, A free lightweight YouTube front-end, is newly added. It’s a fork of NewPipe which brings support for SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike features and more.
Newly Added Apps
8 more apps were newly added
- Dumpsys Packages Copycat: Provides a detailed summary of all installed packages
- Eidetic: A simple Android app that helps you improve your working memory
- Encrypt-Decrypt-AndroidAPK: Encrypt / Decrypt APK , with AES 256 GCM/DES
- Open Alert Viewer: Fetch and display server alerts
- ShockAlarm: Material 3 app for controlling OpenShock shockers
- sms2call: Make a call when receiving a defined SMS
- SoundRemote: Listen to audio from your PC and control it from your phone
- TheXTech: 2D-platformer game engine
Updated Apps
142 more apps were updated
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- Activity Manager was updated to
5.4.12 - addy.io was updated to
v5.5.0 - Alembicons was updated to
2025.01.02 - Amarok was updated to
0.9.3 - Amber was updated to
3.2.0 - AnLinux was updated to
6.65 Stable - ArcaneChat was updated to
1.52.1 - Arcticons was updated to
12.2.0 - Arcticons Black was updated to
12.2.0 - Arcticons Day & Night was updated to
12.2.0 - Arcticons Material You was updated to
12.2.0 - Arx Libertatis was updated to
1.3.5.3 - baresip was updated to
63.2.5 - baresip+ was updated to
50.2.4 - Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
10.24 - Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to
10.24 - Bura was updated to
1.7.0 - Canta was updated to
2.4.0 - Celestia was updated to
1.7.11 - Cifras o letras was updated to
1.3.1 - Ciyue was updated to
1.2.0 - Clauncher was updated to
v5.2.2 - Clipious was updated to
1.22.7 - CodeCatcher was updated to
1.0.131 - DanXi was updated to
1.4.7 - Delta Chat was updated to
1.52.1 - Delta Icon Pack was updated to
2.0.0 - Dollphone Icon Pack was updated to
1.1.4-hotfix2 - Drinkable was updated to
1.56.0 - DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to
5.224.0 - Emotic was updated to
0.1.7 - Endless Sky was updated to
0.10.11-47 - EnforceDoze was updated to
1.7.0 - Ente Auth was updated to
4.3.2 - ETH & UZH canteens Zürich was updated to
1.9.2 - Every Door was updated to
5.4.0 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2262 - Fintunes was updated to
2.4.3 - FitBook was updated to
1.0.91 - Forkgram was updated to
11.7.1.0 - FOSDEM 2025 Schedule was updated to
1.69.1-FOSDEM-Edition - FOSS Browser was updated to
18 - GCompris was updated to
25.0 - Geo Share was updated to
3.1.0 - GNU Taler Point-of-Sale was updated to
0.2.9 - Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.1.4 - Habit-Maker was updated to
0.0.15 - Healthy Battery Charging was updated to
2.0.14 - I2P was updated to
2.7.1 - Immich was updated to
1.125.6 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.7.1 - Journal was updated to
11.7 - Kanji Dojo was updated to
2.1.5 - KeePassVault was updated to
1.12.0 - Kepler-App was updated to
2.10.0 - kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to
1.0.0-alpha.18 - knkpanime was updated to
1.1.7 - Kuaizi IME was updated to
3.0.2 - Kwik EFIS was updated to
7.03 - Ladefuchs was updated to
3.1.9 - LibreTube was updated to
0.27.0 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.2.8 - Material Notes was updated to
1.12.1 - Mill was updated to
5.9.1 - MoeMemos was updated to
0.8.4 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2025.01.31 - MPD was updated to
0.23.17 - My Expenses was updated to
3.9.4 - NeoStumbler was updated to
1.5.0 - neutriNote CE was updated to
4.5.5 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250131 - Nextcloud Tables was updated to
2.0.2 - NextGIS Mobile was updated to
2.9.1 - NextPush was updated to
2.1.3 - NFC Alarm Clock was updated to
12.5.3 - NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to
7.0.0 - NOVA Video Player was updated to
6.3.26 - Obtainium was updated to
1.1.40 - OnePlus Flash Control was updated to
1.3.6 - openHAB was updated to
3.17.1 - Openreads was updated to
2.8.0 - Orgzly Revived was updated to
1.8.36 - Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to
0.95.5 - P2Play - Peertube client was updated to
0.8.3 - Pachli for Mastodon was updated to
2.9.2 - Petals was updated to
3.35.2 - Phocid was updated to
20250130 - Photok was updated to
1.8.0 - Pixelix was updated to
3.4.0 - Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to
3.8.0 - Play NotePad was updated to
1.3.7 - plees-tracker was updated to
25.2 - Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to
8.3.2 - Polaris was updated to
0.10.0 - Prayer Book was updated to
0.7.1 - Privacy Browser was updated to
3.19.3 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.4.2 - QRshare was updated to
1.0.16 - QuickWeather was updated to
2.7.6 - Quillpad was updated to
1.4.23 - Quote Unquote was updated to
4.48.1-fdroid - Rank-My-Favs was updated to
0.6.7 - Reader for Selfoss was updated to
125010291-github - RiMusic was updated to
0.6.69 - Sapio was updated to
1.6.6 - ScanBridge was updated to
1.1.0 - sing-box was updated to
1.11.0 - SkyTube was updated to
2.993 - SkyTube Legacy was updated to
2.993 - SMASH — Smart Mobile App for Surveyor’s Happiness was updated to
1.9.5 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
4.3 - Standard Notes was updated to
3.195.25 - Sunup was updated to
1.0.1 - Table Habit was updated to
1.15.4 - Tailscale was updated to
1.80.0-t4f4686503-gb1405a1d1 - Taler Wallet was updated to
0.14.3 - Tarnhelm was updated to
1.7.0 - Tarock Palčka was updated to
1.0.7 - Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to
14.4.6 - The Life was updated to
1.30.0 - Tilde Friends was updated to
0.0.27 - Todo was updated to
1.5.3 - Traditional T9 was updated to
44.0 - trale was updated to
0.9.1 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.17.9 - Tuta Calendar was updated to
261.250116.0 - Tuta Mail was updated to
266.250131.0 - Twili Recipes was updated to
0.2.3 - Unciv was updated to
4.15.7 - venera was updated to
1.2.3 - Vespucci was updated to
20.2.3.0 - VoIP.ms SMS was updated to
0.6.32-fdroid - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.24.0 - Weather Forecast was updated to
1.7.3 - Weechat-Android was updated to
1.10 - Welefon was updated to
1.6.0 - WhatSave was updated to
2.0.0 (F-Droid) - XiVPN was updated to
1.2.2 - Xtra was updated to
2.41.2 - Zimly S3 Backup was updated to
2.0.0 - µLauncher was updated to
0.0.21 - 聚在工大 was updated to
4.13.4.2
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