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

The task of voca? Read out loud any text shared with it.

No ads. Ever.

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

Just had the first devcall, voca will be 🔥

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

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

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

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.

**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.