Open Source Python Text-to-Speech (TTS) Models
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Python Text-to-Speech (TTS) Models
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kokoro-onnx
TTS with kokoro and onnx runtime
kokoro-onnx is a text-to-speech toolkit that wraps the Kokoro neural TTS model in an easy-to-use ONNX Runtime interface, so you can generate speech from Python with minimal setup. It focuses on running efficiently on commodity hardware, including macOS with Apple Silicon, while still delivering near real-time performance for many use cases. The project ships prebuilt model files and a simple example script, so you can go from installation to producing an audio.wav file in just a few steps. It supports multiple languages and voices, with a curated voice list and configuration via a VOICES file hosted alongside the models. The package is distributed on PyPI, meaning you can integrate it directly into applications or scripts using standard Python tooling. It also recommends pairing with an external G2P package to improve pronunciation quality, especially for more complex languages or names, and is licensed under permissive MIT and Apache-style licenses. -
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OmniVoice
High-Quality Voice Cloning TTS for 600+ Languages
The OmniVoice project is a cutting-edge multilingual text-to-speech system designed to generate high-quality speech across more than 600 languages. Built on a diffusion language model-style architecture, it combines scalability with strong performance, enabling both natural-sounding voice synthesis and efficient inference speeds. One of its most notable capabilities is zero-shot voice cloning, allowing users to replicate a speaker’s voice using only a short reference audio clip. In addition, it supports voice design through configurable attributes such as gender, accent, pitch, and speaking style, giving users fine-grained control over generated speech. The system also includes advanced features like non-verbal expression tags and pronunciation overrides, enabling expressive and precise output. With support for both API-based and command-line usage, it is designed for research, production, and experimentation alike. -
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Chatterbox
SoTA open-source TTS
Chatterbox is Resemble AI's first production-grade open source TTS model. Licensed under MIT, Chatterbox has been benchmarked against leading closed-source systems like ElevenLabs and is consistently preferred in side-by-side evaluations. Whether you're working on memes, videos, games, or AI agents, Chatterbox brings your content to life. It's also the first open source TTS model to support emotion exaggeration control, a powerful feature that makes your voices stand out. Try it now on our Hugging Face Gradio app. If you like the model but need to scale or tune it for higher accuracy, check out our competitively priced TTS service (link). It delivers reliable performance with ultra-low latency of sub-200ms—ideal for production use in agents, applications, or interactive media. -
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Kitten TTS
State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB
KittenTTS is an open-source, ultra-lightweight, and high-quality text-to-speech model featuring just 15 million parameters and a binary size under 25 MB. It is designed for real-time CPU-based deployment across diverse platforms. Ultra-lightweight, model size less than 25MB. CPU-optimized, runs without GPU on any device. High-quality voices, several premium voice options available. Fast inference, optimized for real-time speech synthesis. -
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OpenVoice
Instant voice cloning by MIT and MyShell. Audio foundation model
OpenVoice is a versatile instant voice cloning system that can replicate a speaker’s tone color from just a short audio clip and then generate speech in multiple languages. It is designed not only to match the timbre of the reference voice, but also to give granular control over style parameters such as emotion, accent, rhythm, pauses, and intonation. The model supports cross-lingual and even zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning, so a speaker recorded in one language can be made to speak naturally in others. Architecturally, OpenVoice separates “tone color” cloning from style control, which makes it easier to keep a consistent identity while flexibly changing prosody or language. The project provides open-weight models, inference code, and examples, making it suitable both for research and for building production voice experiences. It is actively developed by MyShell, which also integrates OpenVoice into broader agent and entertainment workflows. -
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Qwen3-TTS
Qwen3-TTS is an open-source series of TTS models
Qwen3-TTS is an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) project built around the Qwen3 large language model family, focused on generating high-quality, natural-sounding speech from plain text input. It provides researchers and developers with tools to transform text into expressive, intelligible audio, supporting multiple languages and voice characteristics tuned for clarity and fluidity. The project includes pre-trained models and inference scripts that let users synthesize speech locally or integrate TTS into larger pipelines such as voice assistants, accessibility tools, or multimedia generation workflows. Because it’s part of the broader Qwen ecosystem, it benefits from the model’s understanding of linguistic nuances, enabling more accurate pronunciation, prosody, and contextual delivery than many traditional TTS systems. Developers can customize voice output parameters like speed, pitch, and volume, and combine the TTS stack with other AI components. -
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Fish Speech
SOTA Open Source TTS
Fish Speech is a state-of-the-art open-source text-to-speech project that has evolved into the OpenAudio series of advanced TTS models. The repository hosts the code and tooling for training, fine-tuning, and serving high-quality TTS, while the current flagship models (OpenAudio-S1 and S1-mini) are distributed via Fish Audio’s playground and Hugging Face. The models are evaluated with Seed TTS metrics and achieve exceptionally low word and character error rates, indicating strong intelligibility and alignment between text and audio. Fish Speech emphasizes expressive and controllable voices: it supports a long list of emotion tags, tone markers, and special audio effect markers that can be embedded in the text to drive prosody and vocal style, from basic emotions to nuanced states like sarcastic, conciliative, or hysterical. The system is multilingual and cross-lingual, handling multiple languages in a single input without explicit phoneme markup, and is trained on large-scale datasets. -
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IndexTTS2
Industrial-level controllable zero-shot text-to-speech system
IndexTTS is a modern, zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) system engineered to deliver high-quality, natural-sounding speech synthesis with few requirements and strong voice-cloning capabilities. It builds on state-of-the-art models such as XTTS and other modern neural TTS backbones, improving them with a conformer-based speech conditional encoder and upgrading the decoder to a high-quality vocoder (BigVGAN2), leading to clearer and more natural audio output. The system supports zero-shot voice cloning — meaning it can mimic a target speaker’s voice from a short reference sample — making it versatile for multi-voice uses. Compared to many open-source TTS tools, IndexTTS emphasizes efficiency and controllability: it offers faster inference, simpler training pipelines, and controllable speech parameters (like duration, pitch, and prosody), which is critical for production use. -
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VoxCPM2
Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation
VoxCPM2 is an advanced open-source text-to-speech system that redefines speech synthesis by eliminating traditional tokenization and instead generating continuous speech representations through a diffusion-based autoregressive architecture. Built on top of the MiniCPM model family, it enables highly natural, expressive, and context-aware speech generation that adapts tone, emotion, and pacing directly from input text. The system is trained on massive multilingual datasets, enabling support for dozens of languages and dialects while maintaining high fidelity and realism in generated audio. VoxCPM stands out for its ability to perform voice cloning with minimal input, capturing not only the speaker’s timbre but also nuanced features such as rhythm, accent, and emotional delivery. It also introduces voice design capabilities, allowing users to generate entirely new voices from natural language descriptions without requiring reference audio. -
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Audiblez
Generate audiobooks from e-books
Audiblez is a tool for generating high-quality .m4b audiobooks directly from .epub e-books using the Kokoro-82M neural text-to-speech model. It focuses on making audiobook creation easy and fast: from a single command, the tool splits an e-book into chapters, synthesizes audio for each section, and then merges the results into a structured audiobook with chapter-based WAV files and a final .m4b container. The Kokoro-82M model it uses is compact (82M parameters) yet natural sounding, trained on under 100 hours of audio, and supports multiple languages, including English (US/UK), Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. Audiblez can run entirely from the command line via a PyPI package or through a simple cross-platform GUI built on wxPython, giving both advanced users and non-technical users an accessible workflow. -
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Pocket TTS
A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket)
Pocket TTS is a lightweight text-to-speech project designed to run efficiently on CPUs, targeting developers who want local speech generation without depending on GPUs or hosted web APIs. It is built to feel practical in everyday applications, where installation and usage should be as simple as adding a dependency and calling a function. The project focuses on keeping the runtime footprint manageable while still producing natural-sounding speech, which makes it attractive for offline tools, prototypes, and privacy-sensitive workflows. Because it is CPU-oriented, it fits well in server environments where GPU access is limited, in desktop apps, or in edge deployments where simplicity matters more than maximum throughput. It also emphasizes developer ergonomics, providing a straightforward API surface that can be integrated into pipelines, assistants, accessibility tools, or batch generation scripts. -
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Resemble Enhance
AI powered speech denoising and enhancement
Resemble Enhance is an AI-powered speech enhancement tool focused on improving the quality of recorded or generated voice audio. It combines denoising and enhancement so speech can sound cleaner, clearer, and more polished. The denoising module separates speech from unwanted background noise, while the enhancement module improves perceptual quality by restoring distortions and extending audio bandwidth. It is useful for voice datasets, podcasts, narration, generated speech, and other workflows where speech clarity matters. The models are trained on high-quality speech data, which helps the tool produce cleaner output than basic filtering alone. Its main value is giving developers and audio creators an open tool for upgrading imperfect speech recordings. -
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VibeVoice
Open-source multi-speaker long-form text-to-speech model
VibeVoice-1.5B is Microsoft’s frontier open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio such as podcasts. Unlike traditional TTS systems, it excels in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking for up to 90 minutes of continuous speech with as many as four distinct speakers. A key innovation is its use of continuous acoustic and semantic speech tokenizers operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz, enabling high audio fidelity with efficient processing of long sequences. The model integrates a Qwen2.5-based large language model with a diffusion head to produce realistic acoustic details and capture conversational context. Training involved curriculum learning with increasing sequence lengths up to 65K tokens, allowing VibeVoice to handle very long dialogues effectively. Safety mechanisms include an audible disclaimer and imperceptible watermarking in all generated audio to mitigate misuse risks. -
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GPT-SoVITS
1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model
GPT‑SoVITS is a state-of-the-art voice conversion and TTS system that enables zero‑shot and few‑shot synthesis based on a short vocal sample (e.g., 5 seconds). It supports cross‑lingual speech synthesis across English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, and more. It's powered by VITS architecture enhanced for few‑sample adaptation and real‑time usability. -
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Dia2
TTS model capable of streaming conversational audio in realtime
Dia2 is a streaming dialogue text-to-speech model created by Nari Labs for generating conversational audio in real time. It is designed to begin producing speech before receiving the entire input text, which makes it useful for interactive voice applications. The model supports audio conditioning, allowing generated speech to follow a reference voice or conversational style more naturally. Dia2 provides 1B and 2B model checkpoints along with inference code for research and experimentation. It currently focuses on English generation and supports up to two minutes of generated audio. Its main value is enabling low-latency, dialogue-oriented TTS workflows where timing, turn-taking, and natural conversation matter. -
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GLM-4-Voice
GLM-4-Voice | End-to-End Chinese-English Conversational Model
GLM-4-Voice is an open-source speech-enabled model from ZhipuAI, extending the GLM-4 family into the audio domain. It integrates advanced voice recognition and generation with the multimodal reasoning capabilities of GLM-4, enabling smooth natural interaction via spoken input and output. The model supports real-time speech-to-text transcription, spoken dialogue understanding, and text-to-speech synthesis, making it suitable for conversational AI, virtual assistants, and accessibility applications. GLM-4-Voice builds upon the bilingual strengths of the GLM architecture, supporting both Chinese and English, and is designed to handle long-form conversations with context retention. The repository provides model weights, inference demos, and setup instructions for deploying speech-enabled AI systems. -
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MetaVoice-1B
Foundational model for human-like, expressive TTS
MetaVoice — in the form of its source repository “metavoice-src” — is a large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) model. Specifically, the base model (MetaVoice-1B) uses around 1.2 billion parameters and has been trained on a massive dataset — reportedly around 100,000 hours of speech data. The goal is to provide human-like, expressive, and flexible TTS: able to generate natural-sounding speech that can handle diverse inputs and likely generalize over voice styles, intonation, prosody, and perhaps multiple languages or accents. With that scale and dataset volume, MetaVoice aims to push the boundary of what open-source TTS models can achieve: high fidelity, natural prosody, and robustness even for edge cases. As a foundational model, it can serve as the backbone for downstream tasks — such as voice generation, voice cloning, speech generation for virtual agents, or even audio production pipelines. -
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WhisperLive
A nearly-live implementation of OpenAI's Whisper
WhisperLive is a “nearly live” implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper model focused on real-time transcription. It runs as a server–client system in which the server hosts a Whisper backend and clients stream audio to be transcribed with very low delay. The project supports multiple inference backends, including Faster-Whisper, NVIDIA TensorRT, and OpenVINO, allowing you to target GPUs and different CPU architectures efficiently. It can handle microphone input, pre-recorded audio files, and network streams such as RTSP and HLS, making it flexible for live events, monitoring, or accessibility workflows. Configuration options let you control the number of clients, maximum connection time, and threading behavior so the server can be tuned for different deployment environments. On the client side, you can set the language, whether to translate into English, model size, voice activity detection, and output recording behavior. -
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Resemblyzer
A python package to analyze and compare voices with deep learning
Resemblyzer is a Python package for analyzing and comparing voices with deep learning. It works by turning speech audio into a compact voice embedding that represents the speaker’s vocal characteristics. These embeddings can then be used for speaker similarity, clustering, diarization experiments, voice comparison, and audio dataset exploration. The project is useful for researchers and developers who need a practical way to reason about speaker identity without building a voice encoder from scratch. It can help identify whether two recordings sound like the same speaker or visualize voice relationships across many samples. Its main value is making speaker representation accessible through a simple Python workflow. -
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Step-Audio
Open-source framework for intelligent speech interaction
Step-Audio is a unified, open-source framework aimed at building intelligent speech systems that combine both comprehension and generation: it integrates large language models (LLMs) with speech input/output to handle not only semantic understanding but also rich vocal characteristics like tone, style, dialect, emotion, and prosody. The design moves beyond traditional separate-component pipelines (ASR → text model → TTS), instead offering a multimodal model that ingests speech or audio and produces speech accordingly, enabling natural dialogue, voice cloning, and expressive speech synthesis. Through its architecture, Step-Audio supports multilingual interaction, dialects, emotional tones (joy, sadness, etc.), and even more creative speech styles (like rap or singing), while allowing dynamic control over speech characteristics. It also provides a “generative data engine,” which can produce synthetic speech data (cloning voices, varying style) to support TTS training. -
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clone-voice
A sound cloning tool with a web interface, using your voice
Clone-voice is a local voice-cloning tool that lets you synthesize speech in any target voice or convert one recording into another voice using the same timbre. It is built around Coqui’s XTTS-v2 model, so it inherits multilingual support and modern neural TTS quality while wrapping it in a user-friendly desktop workflow. The app is designed to be very easy to use: you download a precompiled package, double-click app.exe, and it launches a browser-based web interface where you control cloning and synthesis. It does not require an NVIDIA GPU to run basic tasks, although GPU acceleration can be used when available, making it accessible on modest machines. The tool supports around sixteen languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, and others, and can capture reference voices directly from a microphone or from uploaded audio. -
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ChatTTS
A generative speech model for daily dialogue
ChatTTS is an open-source conversational text-to-speech model optimized for dialogue, developed by 2Noise. Trained on 100,000+ hours of English and Chinese conversation data, it excels at generating expressive prosody—pauses, interjections, laughter—for more natural-sounding speech synthesis in assistant and chatbot applications. -
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MOSS-TTS Family
MOSS‑TTS Family open‑source speech and sound generation model
MOSS-TTS is an open-source speech and sound generation model family built for high-fidelity, expressive, and production-oriented audio workflows. It covers long-form speech, voice cloning, multi-speaker dialogue, voice design, environmental sound effects, and real-time streaming TTS. The project is designed for complex real-world use cases where a single speech model may not be enough. Its flagship model focuses on stable long speech generation, multilingual and code-switched synthesis, pronunciation control, and zero-shot voice cloning. The broader family also includes dialogue generation, prompt-based voice creation, streaming voice-agent support, and a unified audio tokenizer. It is especially useful for developers building dubbing, podcasts, audiobooks, voice assistants, character voices, and creative audio tools. -
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Miso TTS
Miso TTS is an 8 billion, highly emotive text-to-speech model
Miso TTS is an advanced 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model developed by Miso Labs for generating highly expressive and natural-sounding conversational speech. Built on an RVQ Transformer architecture inspired by Sesame CSM, it combines a powerful Llama-based backbone with an autoregressive audio decoder to produce high-quality audio from text. The model supports both standard speech synthesis and voice-conditioned generation using optional audio prompts for voice cloning. Miso TTS generates Mimi audio codes and can leverage conversation history to create more contextually aware and realistic dialogue. Designed for local deployment, it offers watermarking by default to help promote responsible use of generated audio. With its focus on emotive speech generation, Miso TTS delivers state-of-the-art performance for AI voice applications, virtual assistants, and conversational AI experiences. -
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OuteTTS
Interface for OuteTTS models
OuteTTS is an interface library for running OuteTTS text-to-speech models across a range of backends, making it easier to deploy the same model on different hardware and runtimes. It provides a high-level Interface API that wraps model configuration, speaker handling, and audio generation so you can focus on integrating speech into your application rather than wiring up low-level engines. The project supports multiple backends including llama.cpp (Python bindings and server), Hugging Face Transformers, ExLlamaV2, VLLM and a JavaScript interface via Transformers.js, allowing it to run on CPUs, NVIDIA CUDA GPUs, AMD ROCm, Vulkan-capable GPUs, and Apple Metal. It also includes a notion of speaker profiles: you can create a speaker from a short audio sample, save it as JSON, and reuse it for consistent voice identity across generations and sessions. For best quality, the model is designed to work with a reference speaker clip and will inherit emotion, style, and accent from that reference.
