alt.hn

6/1/2026 at 6:39:53 PM

GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36001-grapheneos-speech-services-version-2-released

by pretext

6/1/2026 at 8:31:52 PM

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.

by Panino

6/1/2026 at 10:44:03 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

by Cider9986

6/1/2026 at 11:38:43 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?

by sterlind

6/2/2026 at 1:04:05 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/

by genodethrowaway

6/1/2026 at 11:00:11 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.

by hsbauauvhabzb

6/1/2026 at 8:46:55 PM

Would be more interested in speech to text.

by miroljub

6/1/2026 at 8:52:19 PM

Check out FUTO keyboard with the larger 250 MB model

by _hyn3

6/1/2026 at 9:08:27 PM

I use it everyday.

by maelito

6/1/2026 at 10:54:59 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.

by colordrops

6/1/2026 at 11:44:17 PM

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

by blendergeek

6/1/2026 at 8:42:59 PM

Excellent to see progress here

by Mr_Eri_Atlov

6/1/2026 at 10:49:18 PM

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)

by phoronixrly

6/1/2026 at 9:06:44 PM

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.

by gslepak

6/1/2026 at 9:08:07 PM

Comaps voice navigation maybe ?

by maelito

6/2/2026 at 1:26:20 AM

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

by compass_copium