spokestack-android VS espeak-ng

Compare spokestack-android vs espeak-ng and see what are their differences.

espeak-ng

eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents. (by espeak-ng)
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spokestack-android espeak-ng
2 25
52 2,780
- 4.9%
4.7 7.2
over 2 years ago 5 days ago
Java C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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spokestack-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of spokestack-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-19.
  • Apps with voice control
    2 projects | /r/androiddev | 19 Feb 2021
    Good stuff. Nice to see Tasker and Termux being considered as clients upfront. Maybe you'd also get some use out of Spokestack's integrations: we* have a modular system for hooking into different services for different parts of the request pipeline (wakeword/ASR/NLU/TTS). Android ASR and Spokestack NLU work offline like your assistant framework; the rest would require an Internet connect.

espeak-ng

Posts with mentions or reviews of espeak-ng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-01.
  • IAMA senior javascript dev, ask me anything
    7 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 1 Jul 2023
    I'm skeptical about a senior JavaScript developer claiming to be bored. Nonetheless, let's see. How would you go about modifying [this](ng/blob/master/emscripten/espeakng_glue.idl) IDL file, this C++ glue code, and the relevant Make file to compile eSpeak NG to JavaScript with Emscripten with SSML support enabled?
  • Is there a good text to speech program for linux?
    6 projects | /r/linux | 22 Jun 2023
    eSpeak NG supports running on Linux, BSD, Mac, Android, Windows, has been compiled to WASM with Emscripten. See also espeak and meSpeak.js.
  • Balacoon: python package for text-to-speech
    4 projects | /r/Python | 13 Apr 2023
    I didnt not release trainy parts to build voices. I am considering, but there is so many packages already (coqui, espnet, piper, nemo, fairseq to name a few) that i focused on usability for now. Support for new languages is a different question. Everyone wants to train fancy neural nets. But support for new language is about writing rules and having language expertise. I did it for English (https://github.com/balacoon/en_us_normalization/tree/c1019cf878aa6baf25d6fff719cf418cca5a3107/production/classify). Doing it for all the other languages would probably take me a lifetime. Other speech synthesis solutions use 17-years old espeak for this purpose (https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/languages.md). I introduced the fallback to it in Balacoon too. But generally, it is outdated technology and I believe we should do better.
  • I Created A Web Speech API NPM Package Called SpeechKit
    7 projects | /r/javascript | 23 Feb 2023
    There are espeak-ng https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng and pocketsphinx https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx which can be used locally without making external requests.
  • Ask HN: Are there any good open source Text-to-Speech tools?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2023
    I've had good luck with https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng (for very specific purposes, and I was willing to wrangle IPA)
  • Node.js Native Messaging host
    5 projects | /r/node | 9 Oct 2022
    Web Speech API does not provide a means to capture audio output of speechSynthesis.speak(new SpeechSynthesis.speak()). Using Native Messaging we start a local server, send input text or SSML to the local server with fetch(), pass the input data to local speech synthesis engine, in this case espeak-ng, get response back as WAV in the browser, which we parse to Float32Array and write to a MediaStreamTrackGenerator which we then output speakers and/or share with peers (https://github.com/guest271314/native-messaging-espeak-ng; https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/tree/master/chromium_extension).
  • Curious with Text To Speech
    3 projects | /r/learnpython | 23 Aug 2022
    The most portable way: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
  • TTS engine that allows me to add my own MSI files
    3 projects | /r/fossdroid | 11 Aug 2022
  • ⟳ 0 apps added, 78 updated at f-droid.org
    12 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 30 Jun 2022
    eSpeak (version 1.51.1): Text-to-speech engine for Android. Based on the eSpeak engine.
  • How to convert phonetic units into words by writing some code (general software approach)?
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 23 Jun 2022
    This is one I use for a basic robo-assistant voice that you might be able to glance at and get an idea for: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng, and I believe the big ML companies have released some neural net code freely, so that might also be an avenue.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spokestack-android and espeak-ng you can also consider the following projects:

RHVoice - a free and open source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages

TTS - πŸΈπŸ’¬ - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production

piper - A fast, local neural text to speech system

scrcpy - Display and control your Android device

SAM - Software Automatic Mouth - Tiny Speech Synthesizer

aeneas - aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)

RealTimeSingingSynthesizer - Live Coding Singing Synthesizer. Python sinsy-NG wrapper.

vosk-android-demo - Offline speech recognition for Android with Vosk library.

marytts - MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java

flowtron - Flowtron is an auto-regressive flow-based generative network for text to speech synthesis with control over speech variation and style transfer

YourTTS - YourTTS: Towards Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS and Zero-Shot Voice Conversion for everyone

MvRx - Mavericks: Android on Autopilot