If you can read it, Voca can say it. Articles, web pages, PDFs, Markdown files and Nostr notes read aloud in your phone's own voice. Speech runs privately on your device, with account-free use and ad-free, analytics-free reading. Free software, MIT, on Zapstore. Built for GrapheneOS, runs on Android 10 and up.
Voca 1.5.0 adds a Donate option, prepares upcoming sentences sooner with Marmalade Pocket TTS voices, makes estimated word highlighting wait for engine audio, and fixes shared or pasted text sometimes not starting.
Fixes the opt-in diagnostics HTTP 415 path and reduces live-speech tracking work.
Background speech handovers do less work, and opt-in diagnostics recover from rejected uploads.
Queue Auto-advance now stops as configured, with a gentle cue between automatic items and less speech-boundary work.
App-specific volume gain, repaired reader follow-along, reliable current-sentence jumps, and selected-text bookmarks.
Faster sentence transitions and an explicitly opt-in anonymous diagnostics report.
A faster, more reliable home-screen reader for long listening sessions.
Voca 1.0 for Android: a private reader that turns articles, PDFs, Markdown and Nostr into speech in your phone own voice.
