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MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 days ago

Can I uninstall this Google service without affecting my phone negatively?

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Can I uninstall this Google service without affecting my phone negatively?

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MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 days ago
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  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    It’ll make the microphone button on your keyboard not work and turn your GPS app mute. Other than that, no bad effects.

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      Can you replace it with an OS app like SherpaTTS?

      • Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I have replaced it with sherpaTTS and now I can hear glados’ voice for navigation :D

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          Really? which one are you using to get the Glados effect?

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            The repo links to this to test models: https://huggingface.co/spaces/k2-fsa/text-to-speech And there is a glados one listed there (at least in english and german)

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        Yes but I’ve given up on that front. Not important enough for me to research any more.

    • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.worldOP
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      Well, seems I can uninstall it. Thanks.

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      I’d also expect it could make Google translate unable to pronounce words.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    I don’t have it installed on my phone and it works just fine.

    /GrapheneOS

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    I think Duolingo requires it in order to do speaking exercises.

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      I don’t use it anyway, so this wouldn’t be this big of a damage.

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    I think it’s used for google assistant and the voice digitation, i am not sure tho, but anyway it’s not something that will break Android and you can just reinstall it

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    Yes you can. Enable USB debugging and do this adb command: adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.tts

    And if you want to restore it: adb shell cmd package install-existing --user 0 com.google.android.tts

    • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.worldOP
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      I used Brevent on my phone to uninstall it.

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