Speech-to-text provider
About this app
Kõnele is an app that offers speech-to-text user interfaces to other apps. Many apps contain a text area or a text field (e.g. a message box or a search bar) that can be edited using the input method editor (IME), aka the on-screen keyboard. Kõnele provides an IME that is optimized for speech input. Modalities like swiping and buttons are also supported, for situations where speaking is less convenient. Many apps (e.g. intelligent assistants, navigation apps) also contain a microphone button that is linked to the standard Android speech recognition activity. Kõnele provides an implementation of this activity, and uses it itself as a launcher.
Kõnele can connect to any speech recognition service available on the device but by default uses, and is optimized for Kõnele service (https://github.com/Kaljurand/K6nele-service), a separate lightweight app whose backing server runs the kaldi-gstreamer-server (https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server) software. The default server operates from Tallinn and provides Estonian speech recognition, but the software is easy to deploy elsewhere (e.g. a private network) and customize for other languages.
(Note that Kõnele also includes a simpler version of "Kõnele service" under the name "Kõnele (fast recognition)".)
Licensed under Apache-2.0, by Kaarel Kaljurand.
What's New in v1.9.16
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Improve compatibility with Android v13 and v14
- - Update dependencies
Version history
Mar 30, 2024 · 1.8 MB · Android API 24–34 · code 1916
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Improve compatibility with Android v13 and v14
- - Update dependencies
SHA-256 5a23bafd48c28b4e7720005a84061accddf185937ee91979d0df88f73b4e3cf0
Feb 20, 2022 · 1.9 MB · Android API 21–32 · code 1814
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Assign the built-in services to a separate process.
- This solves the long-standing permission issue on Android 11.
- It is still recommended to use a separate service like "Kõnele service" for possibly more features and improved configurability.
- - IME: change UI mode by vertical dragging (instead of pressing the lower-right-corner button). The height (and thus the mode) of the IME is stored per app.
- - IME: lower-right-corner button is now only a microphone button (but invisible in the default
SHA-256 e9f9b4acc63be74a4f36104ec187a08b1ea99d72e88f2b5e8f2c15a79188e489
Oct 31, 2021 · 1.6 MB · Android API 21–30 · code 1810
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
SHA-256 bb10ecd2376dbd9a9dc4899fc8207d174903552870faf5ddc99c0ed6fe6b89fb
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- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
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