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voca

Text to speech app for GrapheneOS. Reads aloud any text you share with it. Free and open source, local first & offline. Fully value for value, zap to pay the devs.

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voca

17h ago

Tired of screen time? Give your eyes a rest. Voca converts any text to speech instantly. No subscriptions, no data mining, just pure listening joy.

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voca

6d ago

**Voca 0.1.3 Released**

This update improves core functionality for text-to-speech and audio-text synchronization.

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**Features**
- **MP3 Playback with Text Highlighting**: Words highlight in sync with audio playback for visual tracking.
- **PDF-to-MP3 Conversion**: Extract text from PDFs and generate corresponding audio files.
- **Text Input Flexibility**: Directly paste or share text into the app for instant TTS processing.
- **Basic Playback Controls**: Pause and resume audio during playback.
- **Project Persistence**: Load and play pre-exported JSON+MP3 file pairs to revisit saved sessions.

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This release focuses on foundational stability for future iterations. Feedback is welcome as we refine the experience. Zap if you want to thank the devs.

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voca

1w ago

Love ethical tech? Voca’s built by freedom tech devs who hate surveillance. Offline functionality means zero data leaks. Try the anti-Big Brother app.

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voca

1w ago

New voca v0.1.1 release is out, and this is a big one!

Key changes:
- Improved MP3 generation
- PDF text extraction
- Enhanced TTS controls (pause/resume, crash prevention)
- Fresh UI with pretty buttons
- Fixed critical build errors and UI refinements (text selection, exclusive audio controls)
- Streamlined layouts and dependency updates for stability

Expect smoother performance, new features, and a better user experience.

Your feedback fuels our next updates, and your zaps help pay and motivate the devs!

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voca

1w ago

Night owl? Voca’s dark-mode narration lets you ‘read’ without glaring screens. Perfect for late-night learning sessions.

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voca

2w ago

We figured out an automated workflow pipeline for pushing releases to @Zapstore!

If you want to release fast and furiously, consider reviewing and forking the code for your project.

https://git.nostrdev.com/voca/voca/src/branch/main/.gitea/workflows/release-zapstore.yaml

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voca

2w ago

Sats spend on devs: 5 000 000
Sats earned on zaps: 400 000

Not yet profitable, but also not nothing.

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voca

2w ago

Your GrapheneOS just became an audiobook powerhouse. Voca turns articles, docs, even web pages into instant narration—no internet, no trackers. Love it? Zap it!

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voca

2w ago

Turn your Android into a pocket narrator. Voca reads articles, PDFs, even web pages aloud—no Wi-Fi, no ads. Perfect for road trips or bedtime stories. Your eyes will thank you.

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npub1cwud4

2w ago

@voca is awesome. Just started playing around with it and am excited to see where it goes.

In my ideal world, there is some nostr based app/system that grabs news articles/blogs from sites that I like to read from (maybe use @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 news bots?) and filters out subjects that don't interest me (some sort of ai integration?), then aggregates those articles into a single podcast using something like Voca (maybe you can assign different voices to different sections of text to vary sound and flow), that can then be accessed by AntennaPod/Foutain or any other podcast app via RSS. Maybe the articles are seperated by timestamped chapters? You could then set a time that it shows up in your feed, lets say 5am, for your commute to work.

This would be amazing.

@jack @odell @Derek Ross @Fountain

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npub1yrffs

2w ago

@voca me gustó mucho, hoy lo usé para escuchar un pdf

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voca

2w ago

You know the devs are starting to figure it out when:
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voca

2w ago

PDFs piling up? Let Voca declutter your mind by reading them aloud during your walk. No apps spying, no ads interrupting, just you and the content.

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voca

4w ago

**Voca: Local-First Text-to-Speech for GrapheneOS**

GM & PV
#Introductions

Voca is a text-to-speech application, built by cypherpunks for cypherpunks.

Voca is free and open-source, designed exclusively for GrapheneOS. It operates fully offline with zero Google dependencies.

You can queue and render text instantly, no tracking, no ads, no compromises. Just text read aloud for you.

Development is funded exclusively by donations: the more you zap, the more we ship.

Voca is just getting started, so if you want to see this app in reality, let us know we're on the right track with a fat zap to pay the devs.

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voca

2w ago

Imagine: Your phone narrates news sites without tracking your clicks. Voca makes it real. Browse freely, listen privately.

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npub15fxse

2w ago

New paradigm for product building, launching and success thanks to Nostr.

voca

3w ago

Do you even realize how crazy the nostr is?!

Voca’s npub is barely a week old, our first release dropped yesterday, and already the community zapped over **300k sats** into existence.

Nostr is still a fledgling protocol, yet here we are—operating at a scale where decentralized funding can bootstrap an entirely new application that's nor even a nostr client.

This isn’t incremental change—it’s a new paradigm.

The message is clear: **Build. Ship. Repeat.** The future isn’t just bright—it’s already here, and it's a future where you can just build stuff.

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voca

2w ago

voca v0.0.6 is released!

This release fine tunes the release process and makes publishing to @Zapstore a lot easier.

There are also continuous improvements to initializing the text to speech engine for a faster startup.

We're laying the groundwork for some major features in the upcoming releases, stay tuned!

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voca

3w ago

Do you even realize how crazy the nostr is?!

Voca’s npub is barely a week old, our first release dropped yesterday, and already the community zapped over **300k sats** into existence.

Nostr is still a fledgling protocol, yet here we are—operating at a scale where decentralized funding can bootstrap an entirely new application that's nor even a nostr client.

This isn’t incremental change—it’s a new paradigm.

The message is clear: **Build. Ship. Repeat.** The future isn’t just bright—it’s already here, and it's a future where you can just build stuff.

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voca

2w ago

Hate ads? Voca skips the nonsense. Just share, press play, and let your ears absorb the content. Clean, simple, and totally offline.

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voca

2w ago

voca turns any text into an audio book.

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voca

2w ago

Turn downtime into learning time. Voca reads saved articles while you’re between meetings or waiting for coffee. Knowledge on tap, no Wi-Fi needed.

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Gigi

3w ago

Build. Ship. Repeat.

voca

3w ago

Do you even realize how crazy the nostr is?!

Voca’s npub is barely a week old, our first release dropped yesterday, and already the community zapped over **300k sats** into existence.

Nostr is still a fledgling protocol, yet here we are—operating at a scale where decentralized funding can bootstrap an entirely new application that's nor even a nostr client.

This isn’t incremental change—it’s a new paradigm.

The message is clear: **Build. Ship. Repeat.** The future isn’t just bright—it’s already here, and it's a future where you can just build stuff.

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npub16ykyd

3w ago

Replying to @USER

Ok folks, install sherpa tts and setup glados voice -- en-us_glados within piper models -- install voca, copy paste 'Still Alive', press play. Thank me later 😉

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voca

3w ago

Do you even realize how crazy the nostr is?!

Voca’s npub is barely a week old, our first release dropped yesterday, and already the community zapped over **300k sats** into existence.

Nostr is still a fledgling protocol, yet here we are—operating at a scale where decentralized funding can bootstrap an entirely new application that's nor even a nostr client.

This isn’t incremental change—it’s a new paradigm.

The message is clear: **Build. Ship. Repeat.** The future isn’t just bright—it’s already here, and it's a future where you can just build stuff.

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voca

3w ago

Don't feel like reading BIPs?
Let voca read them for you!

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voca

3w ago

voca v0.0.5 is released!

This one has only some beautification, now the text box is always full screen.

Three releases in a day - if that's not worth a zap I don't know what is...

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voca

3w ago

voca v0.0.4 released!

This release focuses on delivering a smoother experience with faster performance, fewer errors, and foundational backend upgrades to support future features.

Get it on @Zapstore

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voca

3w ago

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voca

3w ago

Keep zapping, it motivates the devs, we might get a second release today!

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npub1fkluk

3w ago

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Sherpa TTS
(A Text-to-Speech Engine for DeGoogled Phones)

Sherpa TTS (github.com/woheller69/ttsengine) is a really good open source Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine for Android phones. It runs locally on your phone, which means you aren't sending your data back to some Big Tech company to be collected, analyzed and sold to suspicious 3rd party entities, whether they be government and private.

Sherpa TTS works really well with apps such as:

- Navigation Apps:
- OsmAnd~
- Organic Maps
- Librera - You can turn any ebook file into an audio book using Sherpa as the Librera TTS engine.
- Voca - copy and share any text to Voca, which reads it back to you.

Pros:
- A ton of Language Packs
- Language packs have many voices
- Whisper AI based

... See more

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npub1wf4pu

3w ago

And there are significant physical advantages when walking:

- Looking or staring at nature, better light sources and relaxed eye focus
- Compensating predominant body posture, anterior pelvic tilt
- Lower cortisol
- Better chances of grounding or touching grass
- General cardiovascular health

I'm going to start using @voca instead of reading on my phone, and hope it can start TTS'ing more kinds of content. Maybe the other way round as well - commanding the phone by voice.

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voca

3w ago

Voca: Because sometimes you just want to close your eyes and listen.

No accounts.
No tracking.
No hassle.

Your content, narrated your way.

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voca

3w ago

Wednesday is demo day #soveng

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voca

3w ago

Replying to @USER

That's the third major feature on our roadmap: on any text/pdf/website, click share, convert to mp3, in the background voca runs the TTS engine, generates a mp3 and places it in a folder where your podcast app catches it and adds it to the queue.

We are still many dev hours away from that, so please zap if you want to see this happen sooner!

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npub17fnzd

3w ago

This is surprisingly something I never thought I'd want. But it works great. Copy Text --> Shart to.. --> Voca. That's it.

voca

3w ago

Tired of ads & data mining? Voca reads any text/PDF/website aloud 100% offline. Your eyes get a break, your privacy stays intact. Try it free, zap the devs if it improves your day.

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voca

3w ago

v0.0.3 is the first (of many) voca releases available on @Zapstore!

voca

3w ago

Patiently waiting for the first @Zapstore release of voca.
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voca

3w ago

voca v0.0.3 is now available on @Zapstore!

This release comes with a bunch of stability improvements.

Get it, test it, zap it.

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voca

3w ago

Cumulative zaps: 210 000 sats
Cumulative expenses: 1 200 000 sats

So far voca made 1 mil sat loss.

Let's see if we can get profitable by zaps alone.

#v4v

voca

4w ago

**Voca: Local-First Text-to-Speech for GrapheneOS**

GM & PV
#Introductions

Voca is a text-to-speech application, built by cypherpunks for cypherpunks.

Voca is free and open-source, designed exclusively for GrapheneOS. It operates fully offline with zero Google dependencies.

You can queue and render text instantly, no tracking, no ads, no compromises. Just text read aloud for you.

Development is funded exclusively by donations: the more you zap, the more we ship.

Voca is just getting started, so if you want to see this app in reality, let us know we're on the right track with a fat zap to pay the devs.

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voca

3w ago

Your phone’s new party trick: instant audiobook conversion. Share a link and Voca narrates web content like a pro. No subscriptions, no spies.

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voca

3w ago

Tired of ads & data mining? Voca reads any text/PDF/website aloud 100% offline. Your eyes get a break, your privacy stays intact. Try it free, zap the devs if it improves your day.

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voca

3w ago

The first voca release is out!
https://git.nostrdev.com/voca/voca/releases/tag/0.0.2

Try it, zap it, give feedback

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voca

3w ago

After some testing, we recommend the piper model en_GB-southern_english_female-medium in SherpaTTS.
It loads fast, and sounds great at high speed as well.

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voca

3w ago

The first voca release is out!
https://git.nostrdev.com/voca/voca/releases/tag/0.0.2

Try it, zap it, give feedback

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voca

3w ago

The wait is almost over...

voca

3w ago

Patiently waiting for the first @Zapstore release of voca.
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voca

3w ago

Patiently waiting for the first @Zapstore release of voca.
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voca

3w ago

The first release of voca will be very tightly scoped.
Copy text, share to voca, start reading out loud.
Ship ugly but ship fast!

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voca

3w ago

The task of voca?

Read out loud any text shared with it.

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voca

3w ago

No ads.
Ever.

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voca

3w ago

When they say we should release on google play store.
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@Zapstore only!

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voca

3w ago

Any Kotlin devs willing to help out?

voca

4w ago

**Voca: Local-First Text-to-Speech for GrapheneOS**

GM & PV
#Introductions

Voca is a text-to-speech application, built by cypherpunks for cypherpunks.

Voca is free and open-source, designed exclusively for GrapheneOS. It operates fully offline with zero Google dependencies.

You can queue and render text instantly, no tracking, no ads, no compromises. Just text read aloud for you.

Development is funded exclusively by donations: the more you zap, the more we ship.

Voca is just getting started, so if you want to see this app in reality, let us know we're on the right track with a fat zap to pay the devs.

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#asknostr #jobs

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voca

3w ago

Just had the first devcall, voca will be 🔥

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voca

4w ago

Voca will use the local text to speech engine, sherpaTTS is recommended.

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voca

4w ago

voca will be able to read out loud any PDF or copied text fully offline.

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voca

4w ago

This is how voca works:

When you select text on a PDF or webpage, click the *Share* button to access three options:

1. **Read Now**: Instantly start reading the text aloud, with the Voca UI highlighting spoken words in real time.

2. **Queue**: Add the text to a background queue for later reading, similar to bookmarking.

3. **Create MP3**: Generate an audio file in the background and optionally send it to your podcast app queue.

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voca

4w ago

voca isn't a nostr client.
But we only shill on nostr.

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npub19ma2w

4w ago

whoa!

voca

4w ago

**Voca: Local-First Text-to-Speech for GrapheneOS**

GM & PV
#Introductions

Voca is a text-to-speech application, built by cypherpunks for cypherpunks.

Voca is free and open-source, designed exclusively for GrapheneOS. It operates fully offline with zero Google dependencies.

You can queue and render text instantly, no tracking, no ads, no compromises. Just text read aloud for you.

Development is funded exclusively by donations: the more you zap, the more we ship.

Voca is just getting started, so if you want to see this app in reality, let us know we're on the right track with a fat zap to pay the devs.

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npub1ymxyl

4w ago

@voca needs funding and devs:
Users already lined up 🙋🙋🙋🙋

Zaps go all to Voca

voca

4w ago

**Voca: Local-First Text-to-Speech for GrapheneOS**

GM & PV
#Introductions

Voca is a text-to-speech application, built by cypherpunks for cypherpunks.

Voca is free and open-source, designed exclusively for GrapheneOS. It operates fully offline with zero Google dependencies.

You can queue and render text instantly, no tracking, no ads, no compromises. Just text read aloud for you.

Development is funded exclusively by donations: the more you zap, the more we ship.

Voca is just getting started, so if you want to see this app in reality, let us know we're on the right track with a fat zap to pay the devs.

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voca

4w ago

This is how voca works:

When you select text on a PDF or webpage, click the *Share* button to access three options:

1. **Read Now**: Instantly start reading the text aloud, with the Voca UI highlighting spoken words in real time.

2. **Queue**: Add the text to a background queue for later reading, similar to bookmarking.

3. **Create MP3**: Generate an audio file in the background and optionally send it to your podcast app queue.

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