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.

"The app has potential, but the voice sampling rate needs significant improvement. This negatively impacts the audio quality and makes the engine feel unresponsive. Optimizing the audio and improving responsiveness would make the app much more interactive and user-friendly."

This app is purposely NOT the Google TTS style, it is built for responsiveness, on device usage, and openness. For that, this is easily a 5* app if your language is included. I'm not blind or low vision (with glasses), but I personally prefer these more "robotic" voices. To me they are easier to hear than the cloud based hyper realistic ones. Thank you for this great TTS app!

What's new

Android 15 compliant. New Feedback mechanism. Access to language upgrades.