It's been a while now but once out of curiousity I tested the text to speech functionality (with my eyes closed) on an iPhone and another device (a laptop maybe?), and found iOS to be more advanced but still lacking. I don't know much about this but it's nice to see improvements. GrapheneOS seems to be a high value project in terms of dollars-to-output.

• Cider9986

  yesterday at 10:44 PM

  Yeah I've never regretted a Monero donation to them.

  They accept more than 11 different payment methods[1] for donations and pay most of their devs in Monero.

  [1] https://grapheneos.org/donate

  • sterlind

    yesterday at 11:38 PM

    I'd like to donate with Monero, despite my misgivings about the privacy guarantees of RingCT, because I support the spirit of both projects. but I don't want to raise a red flag to my banking institutions or government. what's the least sketchy-looking way to acquire Monero to donate to projects like this?

    • genodethrowaway

      today at 1:04 AM

      Least sketchy? Haveno[2] is one of the exchanges that the getmonero.org site recommends. However, the platform with the most "institutional support" (if that's what you meant by least sketchy) that allows you to buy XMR is probably Kraken[2], but IIRC they have KYC that takes a few days before you can buy.

      [1]: https://haveno.exchange/

      [2]: https://www.kraken.com/

• hsbauauvhabzb

  yesterday at 11:00 PM

  Even if you don’t value this particular function and even if it’s not as good as Google or Apple, I think it’s important to have viable free alternatives so if Google and Apple rapidly become (significantly more) actively hostile there are viable alternatives.

Would be more interested in speech to text.

• _hyn3

  yesterday at 8:52 PM

  Check out FUTO keyboard with the larger 250 MB model

  • maelito

    yesterday at 9:08 PM

    I use it everyday.

• denysvitali

  yesterday at 10:17 PM

  https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/index.html

• colordrops

  yesterday at 10:54 PM

  Yes, can't use Duolingo to its fullest without this. Needs to be the system-integrated speech-to-text too, not some add-on or keyboard.

  • blendergeek

    yesterday at 11:44 PM

    I think it needs to be continuous speech-to-text as well.

Excellent to see progress here

Does it handle multilingual scenarios? For example 'Your line Сливница - Летище София is arriving'? Don't need perfect pronunciation, need it just to not spell it out letter by letter or hallucinate... (Matcha-TTS' demo on HF is broken and couldn't test for myself)

Awesome! Now how do we use this? I tried selecting text and seeing if there was a "Speak" menu item but there doesn't seem to be.

• maelito

  yesterday at 9:08 PM

  Comaps voice navigation maybe ?

  • compass_copium

    today at 1:26 AM

    OsmAnd~ had voice navigation for me today, whereas it never has before. It could be something else I did tho.