GrapheneOSThe first public release of GrapheneOS Speech Services is now available in our App Store. After installing it, it can be activated as a text-to-speech service by tapping it in Settings > System > Language & region > Speech > Text-to-speech output > Preferred engine and approving it in the dialog.
It currently has a single voice for US English. If you have the system language set to anything other than English (United States), then you need to change Settings > System > Language & region > Speech > Text-to-speech output > Language to English (United States) from Use system language for now.
Once it's bundled with the OS, it will be enabled by default so activating it won't be necessary. Needing to activate the TTS engine causes a lot of confusion since Android's standard user interface shows the first TTS engine as active if none is active due to assuming one is bundled.
Our Speech Services app uses a fully open source model for text-to-speech which we created ourselves using existing open source code and data. We'll be able to train a better model to replace this one now that we have an RTX 5090 for this purpose. We also plan to make voices for other languages too.
The second most used language by GrapheneOS users is very likely German and then likely French. UK English would likely be much easier to add than those due to shared code and data sources so we may do that first but German will likely be next if we can find high quality open data to use for it.
Pedro J. Hdez@GrapheneOS At the risk of sounding like Wikipedia, let me say that Spanish is the third spoken lenguage in the World after English and Chinese and about 6-7 times more spoken than German and French.
¡Gracias por el gran trabajo! ;)
benzogaga33 
@ecosdelfuturo @GrapheneOS "The second most used language by GrapheneOS users "
But i hope spanish people will massive use grapheneOS ;+)
But i hope spanish people will massive use grapheneOS ;+)
@benzogaga33 @GrapheneOS I think that's how I understood it. But it seemed unlikely to me, given the number of Spanish speakers. I'm not sure how the developers estimate the number of users per language, but it doesn't add up to me at first glance. But I could be wrong, of course.
@ecosdelfuturo @benzogaga33 Based on update downloads and other service usage around 52% of our users are in Europe, 32% in North America, 15% in Asia Pacific and below 1% in the rest of the world including the rest of Asia and South America.
Our users in North America are nearly all in the US and Canada.
Our users in Europe are heavily concentrated in western Europe, particularly Germany.
Around half of our users in Asia Pacific are in Australia with the other half mostly in Japan and India.
@ecosdelfuturo @benzogaga33 The order for the most widely used primary languages for GrapheneOS users may be English, German, French, Spanish and then Japanese. Chinese would be quite low because it's only Taiwan where we have a large number of users who are primarily using Chinese. Mainland China has a nearly entirely separate ecosystem for devices, software and services. GrapheneOS services work in China and we've done special work for supporting that but it's for hardly anyone in practice.
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Google Pixel isn't officially sold in Mainland China, there's only Pixels sold on secondary market, and (obviously) there won't be warranty.
Also, using high security personal devices (or even just 3rd party aftermarket OSes like LineageOS) are generally frowned upon here, largely because the state's stance on security for personal purpose is largely "you've got nothing to hide if you did nothing wrong (and anything can be wrong in the eye of the gov)" and "surrender your privacy for your protection". There's even some reported cases of WeChat accounts being locked because they're used on LineageOS devices or not in owner profile.
Google Pixel isn't officially sold in Mainland China, there's only Pixels sold on secondary market, and (obviously) there won't be warranty.
Also, using high security personal devices (or even just 3rd party aftermarket OSes like LineageOS) are generally frowned upon here, largely because the state's stance on security for personal purpose is largely "you've got nothing to hide if you did nothing wrong (and anything can be wrong in the eye of the gov)" and "surrender your privacy for your protection". There's even some reported cases of WeChat accounts being locked because they're used on LineageOS devices or not in owner profile.
@GrapheneOS @ecosdelfuturo @benzogaga33
Given these reasons, it's often dissidents or other high security personnels using GOS in Mainland China. So it's also obvious that they would tweak their devices' locale and timezone settings to mask where they actually are, and use at least a VPN to get over censorship.
Given these reasons, it's often dissidents or other high security personnels using GOS in Mainland China. So it's also obvious that they would tweak their devices' locale and timezone settings to mask where they actually are, and use at least a VPN to get over censorship.