RHVoice

RHVoice.com

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About this app

This App is specially designed for blind users who use TalkBack, the Android "screen-reader".

You may also use it with your book-reader, "Speak Aloud" or other Apps. But, this App is NOT a book-reader.

The voices are not perfect but they begin talking instantly, and this is very important for TalkBack users.

Our team is a small group of visually impaired developers. The languages and voices in this App are provided by other groups, or mostly blind developers.

We have only a few languages, but many of those languages have no other way for blind users to use their phone.

IF WE DO NOT HAVE YOUR LANGUAGE, please understand. You can perhaps help us obtain that language - email us. Please do not give a one star review.

The following languages are currently available: American English, Albanian, (Northern accent), Armenian, Eastern Armenian, Brazilian Portuguese, Castilian and Latin American Spanish, Czech, Croatian, Esperanto, Georgian, Finnish, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mexican Spanish, Nepali, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Tswana, Slovak, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek and Southern Vietnamese.

After installation, open the App, select your language and download one of the voices. Then go to Android Text-to Speech settings and set RHVoice as your prefered engine.

Most of the voices are free, developed by volunteers or funded by organizations supporting people with disabilities. A few voices require payment. Revenues are shared between the voice developer and the App teams to help cover expenses and further development.

 If you want to suggest new languages, please contact us on our support email address and we will let voice developer groups know. But we must warn you that building new languages and a voice takes a long time, and is technically challenging.

Ratings and reviews

Pretty decent with a few issues. The English voices don't feel as high quality as the rest. The voices in other languages can be used to read English text pretty well, but because there is no option to have them read numbers in English, they can't be used in place of the English voices. The biggest problem and reason I don't use this as my main talkback speech engine is the fact that all of the voices seem to have issues reading some of the letters on the keyboard, namely q g m and n.

While it's not perfect, it simply works. It's free and open source.

You can't give this app text to convert to speech, it's only a voice pack for Talkback, which requires invasive permissions. This makes it impractical for nonverbal autistic people. It would be nice if the developers made clear that this is a voice pack for accessibility tools rather than a standalone accessibility tool. Three stars because I don't know if it works well for those that need this particularly.

What’s new

New language functionalities