Using Sideporch

Read aloud and dictate

Read aloud any message from its menu, and dictate with the microphone in the message box. Both run on your own server, with open models: nothing is sent to a speech service.

• Reading aloud picks the message’s language by itself, from 31 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Japanese and Korean.
• Dictation understands 99 languages. Press the microphone, speak, and press it again: the text lands in the box for you to check before sending.

Choose your voice (there are ten) and how fast it reads under Appearance in your account menu.

Until an admin downloads the models under Admin → Speech, reading aloud uses the voices of your own device, and dictation isn’t offered. See Speech models.