If you have ever selected a Siri voice on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac and then wondered why the same voice is not available in your favorite text-to-speech app, there is a simple — if somewhat frustrating — answer: Apple does not allow third-party apps to use Siri voices through its standard text-to-speech API. This…
Which third-party apps are compatible with Siri AI? Speech Central is among the early apps to implement Apple’s new App Intents schemas—the technology that enables Siri AI to understand supported app content and actions through natural language. Speech Central currently implements Apple’s system-defined audiobook schemas for both discovering reading items and playing them: .books.audiobook for…
Supertonic TTS Android is the latest sign that offline AI text-to-speech on Android is becoming a real user-facing category rather than a niche experiment. Over the last year, Android has seen a growing wave of open-source based TTS solutions. Some of these projects are fully open-source themselves, while others are built around open models, local…
Android Piper TTS Finally Becomes Practical The idea of using Android Piper TTS as a fully offline, system-level solution has been discussed for some time, but practical implementations have been limited. The release of VoxSherpa on Google Play changes that situation in a meaningful way. VoxSherpa is an open-source application that integrates modern neural voices…
Text-to-speech (TTS) is evolving rapidly across iPhone, Mac, and Android devices. With the introduction of xAI-powered voices, users now have access to a more natural, flexible, and cost-effective speech experience. Speech Central as an Open Voice Platform Speech Central is designed as an open voice platform, giving users full control over their text-to-speech ecosystem. Instead…
If you’ve read my previous article about Android voices (ToBe Said), you’ve already seen how quickly on-device AI text-to-speech is evolving. Now, a similar shift is starting to happen on iOS—with an app that brings offline system voices iOS users have been waiting for: Piper – Neural TTS. From Android Progress to iOS Reality The…
UPDATE: with most recent release where the author has made the change to avoid artifacts when turning the screen on, this feels like a “fully recommended app” now. I would only suggest everyone to go to ToBe Said internal settings and set the speed to “Fast” instead of “Medium” and for most people it would…
If you’ve been using ChatGPT on iPhone, you may have noticed a recent limitation: Read Aloud is no longer available in temporary chat sessions. This has created a gap for users who rely on listening instead of reading. In our previous guide, we covered how to use clipboard-based text-to-speech with Speech Central: iPhone Text to…
Why I Originally Expected Apple Intelligence to Deliver Ultra-Realistic Voices When Apple introduced Apple Intelligence alongside iOS 18, it seemed like the perfect moment for a major leap in Apple’s text-to-speech technology. The reasoning was straightforward. Ultra-realistic speech synthesis is computationally expensive, and Apple Intelligence devices — starting with the newest high-end iPhones — bring…
Speech Central recently expanded its Text-to-Speech features by adding support for open-source TTS engines, bringing the state of the art voices that you can use on your device (iPhone, Android, Mac). The key requirement is simple: if a TTS server is compatible with the OpenAI API, Speech Central can connect to it using the same…
