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Can I uninstall this Google service without affecting my phone negatively? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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[–] mech@feddit.org 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It'll make the microphone button on your keyboard not work and turn your GPS app mute. Other than that, no bad effects.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can you replace it with an OS app like SherpaTTS?

[–] Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have replaced it with sherpaTTS and now I can hear glados' voice for navigation :D

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tibi@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

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)

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Well, seems I can uninstall it. Thanks.

[–] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

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