Right To Repair Advocate Louis Rossman recently announced the release of FUTO, a Text To Speech App that respects your privacy.
After having played around with FUTO on my GrapheneOS Pixel, I can honestly say it’s nice to have. Using the Openboards Keyboard, I’ll admit that the one thing I missed about Gboards was its text to speech capability, but I refused to use it because it logs everything said into it.
IMHO, the team that developed FUTO have created something truly special here, and I’d recommend anyone to at least try it out.
There is a one time $10 payment, but the developers have basically made this more like an opt in donation, as you can just click ‘I Already Paid’ and utilize the app regardless of whether you paid or not. If you try FUTO out, and like it, maybe throw them a few bucks.
Here is an invidious link of Rossman talking about FUTO and its features.
You should give this a quick edit, the feature is literally the opposite of what you wrote. “Text to Speech” is an app reading text out loud as a voice to you. “Speech to text” is the keyboard feature.
Thank you, I was going to comment this but decided to check if someone else had already.
Agreed and done.
We added this to thumb-key recently it’s a great app.
They, uh, maybe should have workshoped that name a little more before settling on it.
Yes it leads me to assume there are… surprise features
Is there any good TTS? RHvoice is kinda robotic, and the output volume is rather low, not ideal on a motorbike.
I installed it after this post, and i’m loving it Thank you
There were some other attempts to do stt, but they all were terrible This app doesn’tlooks like anything of them, feels and looks like google stt, but not google
is this english only?
Futo supports the following languages:
English, Chinese, German, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Catalan, Finnish, and Indonesian.
No, (Polish and Spanish and more) watch the vid about it
No. Videos aren’t good content for some people or places.
