Flatsonar

Parolu

by Walter Bernard

Read text out loud

Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v0.1.2
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About

Parolu allows you to generate audio from text using different voices. This happens exclusively offline on your device, your text is never sent to any third parties.

It's built on the Piper synthesizer library and supports voices for different languages including German, Italian, French, Spanish, and even Esperanto!

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

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