Eloquence Text-To-Speech (TTS) is an adapted version for Android of the popular ETI-Eloquence voice synthesizer.
Details
Eloquence is a TTS engine that can be used in a wide range of applications, such as:
- Screen readers and applications for blind or visually impaired people (like Talkback)
- E-book readers
- Translators
- And many more!
GPS or navigation software
Free or paid:
- Paid on a subscription basis
Accessibility and User Comments:
Eloquence TTS provides support for ten languages with an active subscription, including English (US), English (UK), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), German, Finnish (Finland), French (France), French (Canada), Italian, and Portuguese (Brazil). The engine includes eight voice profiles: Reed, Shelly, Bobby, Rocko, Glen, Sandy, Grandma, and Grandpa. Speed, pitch, and volume can be adjusted, and a user dictionary allows adding, editing, or removing entries to customize pronunciation. Emoji reading is supported.
After installation, the app must be opened to accept the terms of service. A subscription is required to access all features.
Eloquence TTS is compatible with devices running Android N (7.0) and above.
Editorial Staff's notesDuring testing, the TTS engine was generally responsive. In cases where crashes occurred, speech typically resumed quickly, which helped limit interruptions. A seven-day trial period is included with the subscription, and canceling during this period prevents any charges. Subscription pricing varies by country, taking local economic conditions into account.
If a subscription is not purchased or is not renewed, the engine continues to function. However, each spoken text string is preceded by a “please register” message.
This Android version is not affected by some crash-triggering words reported on certain Windows versions. This stability appears to come with some pronunciation inconsistencies, with weekday names being one example.
Some users have reported excessive battery consumption on certain devices, in some cases triggering system warnings that recommend placing the app into deep sleep. The battery drain appears to be more noticeable when Eloquence is used alongside Auto TTS.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
2.5. Android 16
Welcome, everyone, to a relic of the past, a worthless TTS engine who, on the one hand, can’t even sound 2250khz, let alone 4100 or 4800. Not trying to be picky, but we’re in 2026. I mean technicaly we’re not, but we’re half a month. That doesn’t mean far from it either.
Not really trying to be picky, but even lossy streaming services added lossless options.
Ok, that’s one of the details down, and the one that matters the least. But who, in 2026, patches crash words by literally modifying the way the TTS reads, through bad patches, such as un, space, cosp, webhes, space, day. Rare, space, hes, space, kill.
This is just a few of the small examples, but that’s why we’re getting most all days of the week mispronounced. I mean basic words like the very days of the week, we break them in prefix, plus sday, just because we’re lazy?
Now with 2.5, or whatever it is, we have even more broken words, just because more crash words, honestly words that almost nobody uses in the whild because they don’t make any sense, they decided on words you don’t see anywhere, instead of focusing on more quality of life improvements. Like changing the vocoder into something better. Eloquence, at high speeds, when reading some words, crackles and snaps like it’s jaws break.
Letters O, M, Y, or when reading HiBit Uninstaller.
As simple as changing the vocoder. See, a more important matter than the crash words issue. See, nobody uses these words to mean something. Never when you read anything you’ll see Uncosp, Rarheskill, Webhesday, or anything thrown out, because it doesn’t have a meanning.
And besides that, here are the real solutions to these issues, ones that would automaticaly fix everything.
New prosody, phoneme, and speech engine.
It’s simple: Implement a pipeline that’s free, open-source, and ready to use for everyone and it doesn’t cost any money.
I’m not saying the fix is easy. But I’m saying it will be worth something.
ESPnet, XPhoneBERT and ClapSpeech.
It all comes down to these 3 models. ESPNet is an all-in-one, but you can choose to implement only what works best from it. XPhone is a phonemizer, and I’d recommend it in favor of ESPNet’s one, and then ClapSpeech, prosody. This is pure prosody and neural intonation and pronounciation clarity.
In my opinion, using the vocoder from ESPNet, the phonemizer from XPhone, and ClapSpeech in it’s entirety for it’s prosody capabilities, we’ll bring Eloquence to something worth using in 2026. Because as it stands, free GoogleTTS is way better in all these languages Eloquence is good at.
Reason?
Google’s pronounciation and phoneme models are made by obsessed languages over decades. And it’s free, totally free, doesn’t cost a single dyme and, if using AutoTTS or Jieshuo with increased speech rate acceleration, you can get even the neural counterparts of them, not only the low quality voices.
And that excludes the Lemonbalm Google News voices, as those are in a leag of their own.
And they’re also free, you just need a GoogleTTS wrapper and player, as GoogleTTS on Android doesn’t expose them.
But it’s free. Absolutely free, while we have here, a subscription, paid engine that can’t even pronounce the days of the week right?
I’m sorry to say it, and I don’t mean to be rude towards people, if I am then I am sincerely sorry, but this TTS engine, as it stands right now, is worth paying nothing for, disgusting, and a shame in 2026.
And if all of that is so easy, why don’t you do it yourself? And, where did you get this thing that eloquence doesn’t pronounce days of the week right? I’ve been an eloquence user for more than 20 years, and I haven’t noticed anything wrong in pronouncing weekdays. This strange words that make the tts crash, fine, that part is absolutely right; but who on earuses them? This is a phoneme error, and thisis not code factory.s fault. In case you don’t remember, eloquence was developed by IBM and it was actually discontinued. What code factory did was to port the tts to Android; but they don’t have to do anything with improving the tts. now corrsponds to cerence or whatever it’s called. They are now the ones in charge of the tts itself. So, protesting here does not make any sense.
Please note that I still receive the “Please register” message even as I’m subscribed to Eloquence.