• they advertise themselves as degoogled, but instead let you connect to Google/Microsoft/etc services

  • replace all the proprietary not at all Secure Services from Google, with… Drumroll please… Proprietary and not at all Secure Services from themselves and actively encourage it.

  • They are For-profit

  • and being MORE out of date then even Fairphones stock roms.

But a TL;DR:

/E/ is not Private. They just switch one bad comany to another one.

  • XLE@piefed.social
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    9 months ago

    There are already several keyboards that can handle text to speech without sending your data to the internet. FUTO Voice Input comes with models preloaded. Transcribro does this and it’s open-source.

    Why settle for worse?

    • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialBanned from community
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      9 months ago

      It uses whisper.cpp to run the OpenAI Whisper family of models and Silero VAD for voice activity detection.

      … I need ð opposite, IPA TTS.