To be clear, the thing I don't like about this is the inauthenticity.

People are jumping on the Bitcoin / Crypto bandwagon because they want the votes or customers or some other agenda.

I'd rather have people move to Bitcoin because they understand it is better. I don't know if having people use Bitcoin without having any interest in it is a good or bad thing in the long term.

Starting with version 2025.2, our Android app builds are reproducible. This means you can verify that the app you download and install is built from the open source code we publish.

### Sherpa TTS

(A Text-to-Speech Engine for DeGoogled Phones)

Sherpa TTS (github.com/woheller69/ttsengine) is a really good open source Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine for Android phones. It runs locally on your phone, which means you aren't sending your data back to some Big Tech company to be collected, analyzed and sold to suspicious 3rd party entities, whether they be government and private.

Sherpa TTS works really well with apps such as:

- Navigation Apps:

- OsmAnd~

- Organic Maps

- Librera - You can turn any ebook file into an audio book using Sherpa as the Librera TTS engine.

- Voca - copy and share any text to Voca, which reads it back to you.

Pros:

- A ton of Language Packs

- Language packs have many voices

- Whisper AI based

- Works really good

- Fully offline (runs on your phone)

- Open Source

Cons:

- Chinese developer with no credibility in the western world (yet)

### To Get Sherpa TTS Working

1. Install Sherpa TTS from the Zapstore (zapstore.dev) or From F-Droid (f-droid.org)

2. Search your DeGoogled phone settings for "text-to-speech output"

- select "text-to-speech output"

- select "Preferred engine"

- select "Sherpa TTS"

3. Open Sherpa TTS app and download a Language

- Most languages come with different voices, so try a few out. You might surprise yourself with a better voice.

I’m really honored I had the chance to do an interview with freedom fighter Ron Paul!

I asked Ron about auditing the Fed, U.S. gold holdings, how politicians making $200k are worth $50 million, Bitcoin (we need to work on orange pilling him more) and much more: