Right To Repair Advocate Louis Rossman recently announced the release of FUTO, a Text To Speech App that respects your privacy.

After having played around with FUTO on my GrapheneOS Pixel, I can honestly say it’s nice to have. Using the Openboards Keyboard, I’ll admit that the one thing I missed about Gboards was its text to speech capability, but I refused to use it because it logs everything said into it.

IMHO, the team that developed FUTO have created something truly special here, and I’d recommend anyone to at least try it out.

There is a one time $10 payment, but the developers have basically made this more like an opt in donation, as you can just click ‘I Already Paid’ and utilize the app regardless of whether you paid or not. If you try FUTO out, and like it, maybe throw them a few bucks.

Here is an invidious link of Rossman talking about FUTO and its features.

  • @KazuyaDarklightEnglish
    36•1 year ago

    You should give this a quick edit, the feature is literally the opposite of what you wrote. “Text to Speech” is an app reading text out loud as a voice to you. “Speech to text” is the keyboard feature.

    • @Adalast
      3•1 year ago

      Thank you, I was going to comment this but decided to check if someone else had already.