I can't make a post in group,so doing it in comments and Privacy group too:

Hey everyone, I am setting my new (used) pixel 8 with GOS. I read on GOS site a lot,but want clearer understand some things. How to set different profiles- one for private and one for daily use. I understood its possible, right? I read another bothering thing,that GOS use 2 steps authentication- fingerprints and pin to open the phone. I am very against biodata, I never use it. Is it possible to leave only with pin ? Any advice what to apps to install will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

By now I've tried myself
Sorry, could have updated my comment, so thank you again for the effort :⁠-⁠)

@naeap @iByteABit A very old thread, but to answer, @GrapheneOS Speech Services do support english language at the moment. The first goal making the OS installable by blind people is overcomed and now we can look forward to more improvements for the future.

The list was based on what devices the developers had on hand at the time. These devices are included in the latest release.

Great news to see that there's no repeat of the previous delay after the public AOSP release

If you read the 3rd paragraph, it answers your question: To clarify the 2nd paragraph, we’ve ported GrapheneOS to Android 17 for all of the supported devices. That’s a list of the devices we already built and tested it

Huh... Seems the Pixels 9 models are missing from the list?

I agree. They are amazing! Thank you for your kind comment.

Same. Uninstalling RHVoice was awesome. One less thing for me to concern myself with.

Looks like an app issue, since each app controls what is displayed in the media controls section.

I hope they found someone! :D

Anyone having information about what languages are supported?

Thank you, gonna try a reinstall then

Not able to replicate this behaviour on Graphene OS with Symfonium. Works fine for me.

I don't run Symfonium, I use Plexamp and haven't run into this problem. Not sure if that's helpful info or not.

SherpaTTS has been working great for me. I haven't tested the one from GOS, it seems to have no settings at all.

I have this issue where the music playback notification for the Symfonium music player does not update, so every subsequent track will still show with the first track's title and album art.
Anyone else getting this behavior on GrapheneOS? Been wondering if this is a GrapheneOS or Symfonium issue.

add GrapheneOS Speech Services providing a local text-to-speech engine using a model trained by GrapheneOS with fully open source code and training data

That one's pretty cool, I had to install RHVoice as a TTS but having one built in is nice

Cool. There's no speech to text in this? I wonder if there's some particularly nice one that could augment heliboard in some rare case.

Yes but I'd like not to rely on a Google-based service, even for that. I don't want them getting my IP ping every time i receive a message of any kind.

Taking photos chews through battery for me, maybe because of the GPS tagging.

I want the GPS tags and most of my photos are in remote areas with no signal so i carry a backup battery

I'll give Molly a try. The battery drain from the Signal app has been driving me insane.

The default push mechanism for stock Pixel (and Google Play Services) is Firebase (FCM). However, third party, self-hosted Unified Push applications do exist, apps just generally need to support them. For example, Molly, a Signal fork, fully supports Unified Push via Molly Socket.

It should also be noted that apps can simply do something like standard Signal does: use FCM to ping the phone that there's a new message, and then the phone retrieves the notification contents directly from Signal. This makes it so message data from Signal isn't sent in the clear via FCM. All that Google can tell this case is that Signal pinged your phone.

Didn't the unified push run on a Mozilla server CONTROLLED by Google? I feel like there's no good options here, really.