Open Source Linux Text to Speech Software
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View 6 business solutionsBrowse free open source Text to Speech software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Text to Speech software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Piper TTS
A fast, local neural text to speech system
Piper is a fast, local neural text-to-speech (TTS) system developed by the Rhasspy team. Optimized for devices like the Raspberry Pi 4, Piper enables high-quality speech synthesis without relying on cloud services, making it ideal for privacy-conscious applications. It utilizes ONNX models trained with VITS to deliver natural-sounding voices across various languages and accents. Piper is particularly suited for offline voice assistants and embedded systems. -
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Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line program with many options, a shared library for Linux, and a Windows SAPI5 version.
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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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Voicebox
The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS
Voicebox is a local-first voice synthesis studio that aims to bring professional, DAW-like voice generation workflows to a desktop app while keeping models and voice data entirely on your machine. It positions itself as an open-source alternative to cloud voice platforms by emphasizing privacy, offline use, and freedom from subscriptions or usage caps. The tool supports downloading voice models, cloning voices from short audio samples, and generating speech locally, then organizing the results using studio-oriented editing concepts. A standout capability is its multi-track timeline editor and supporting audio tools (like trimming and conversation mixing), which let creators compose multi-voice scenes instead of generating single clips in isolation. It is API-first, meaning you can use it as an app for production work or integrate its speech generation into your own software via an API layer. -
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Applio
A simple, high-quality voice conversion tool focused on ease of use
Applio is a high-quality voice conversion toolkit designed to make modern RVC/VITS-based voice cloning accessible to non-experts. It focuses strongly on ease of use: installation scripts for Windows, Linux, and macOS set up dependencies and then launch a browser-based Gradio interface. Within that interface, users can train and run voice conversion models for tasks like singing conversion, speech-to-speech transformation, and voice cloning. The project is structured to be flexible through plugins and configurations so users can extend functionality without touching the core code. Applio is considered stable and mature; ongoing development is now centered on security patches, dependency maintenance, and occasional improvements, which makes it attractive for production or repeatable workflows. It also includes TensorBoard helper scripts so people training custom models can monitor metrics and experiment more systematically. -
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eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.
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Voice-Pro
Comprehensive Gradio WebUI for audio processing
Voice-Pro is the best gradio WebUI for transcription, translation and text-to-speech. It can be easily installed with one click. Create a virtual environment using Miniconda, running completely separate from the Windows system (fully portable). Supports real-time transcription and translation, as well as batch mode. -
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TTS-Vue
Microsoft speech synthesis tool, built with Electron
TTS-Vue is a desktop text-to-speech application built with Electron, Vue, ElementPlus, and Vite, focused on using Microsoft’s official Speech API for high-quality neural synthesis. It wraps the Microsoft TTS WebSocket interface in a clean UI so users can paste or load text, choose voices, tweak parameters, and export audio without touching raw API calls. The app supports SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language), letting power users specify fine-grained control over pronunciation, pauses, prosody, and emphasis using XML-like markup. It includes batch conversion: users can select multiple .txt files and convert them into audio in one go, making it handy for large text collections or repetitive tasks. For long texts or big files, TTS-Vue automatically slices content into manageable segments, converts them separately, and then stitches them back into a single audio file, avoiding the usual length or timeout issues with TTS APIs. -
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Open JTalk is a Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system. This software is released under the Modified BSD license.
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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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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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SoniTranslate
Synchronized Translation for Videos
SoniTranslate is a video translation and dubbing system that produces synchronized target-language audio tracks for existing video content. It provides a web UI built with Gradio, allowing users to upload a video, choose source and target languages, and then run a pipeline that handles transcription, translation and re-synthesis of speech. Under the hood, it uses advanced speech and diarization models to separate speakers, align audio with timecodes and respect subtitle timing, which lets the generated dub track stay in sync with the original video structure. The project supports a wide range of languages for translation, spanning major world languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, etc.) and many regional or less widely spoken languages, making it suitable for broad internationalization. It offers multiple usage modes, including a Colab notebook for cloud-based experimentation, a Hugging Face Space demo for quick trials, and instructions. -
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DiffSinger
Singing Voice Synthesis via Shallow Diffusion Mechanism
DiffSinger is an open-source PyTorch implementation of a diffusion-based acoustic model for singing-voice synthesis (SVS) and also text-to-speech (TTS) in a related variant. The core idea is to view generation of a sung voice (mel-spectrogram) as a diffusion process: starting from noise, the model iteratively “denoises” while being conditioned on a music score (lyrics, pitch, musical timing). This avoids some of the typical problems of prior SVS models — like over-smoothing or unstable GAN training — and produces more realistic, expressive, and natural-sounding singing. The method introduces a “shallow diffusion” mechanism: instead of diffusing over many steps, generation begins at a shallow step determined adaptively, which leverages prior knowledge learned by a simple mel-spectrogram decoder and speeds up inference. -
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VoxCPM
TTS for Context-Aware Speech Generation and True-to-Life Voice Cloning
VoxCPM is a tokenizer-free text-to-speech system that models speech in a continuous space, aiming for extremely realistic, context-aware synthesis and true-to-life zero-shot voice cloning. Instead of converting speech into discrete tokens, it uses an end-to-end diffusion-autoregressive architecture built on the MiniCPM-4 backbone, combining hierarchical language modeling, finite scalar quantization (FSQ), and local Diffusion Transformers. This design helps decouple semantic and acoustic information while preserving fine-grained prosody, leading to more stable and expressive generation than many discrete-token systems. Trained on a large 1.8-million-hour bilingual corpus, VoxCPM can infer appropriate speaking style from context, dynamically adjusting intonation, rhythm, and emotional tone. It supports zero-shot voice cloning from a short reference audio clip, capturing timbre, accent, and pacing to closely mimic a target speaker without per-speaker fine-tuning. -
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ebook2audiobook
Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1107+ languages
ebook2audiobook is a tool to convert legally obtained eBooks (non-DRM) into fully narrated audiobooks, complete with chapters and metadata. It automates the pipeline: it reads the eBook file, splits it into appropriate segments (chapters, paragraphs), uses text-to-speech (TTS) models to synthesize audio, optionally applies voice cloning, and outputs a final audiobook — ideal for people who prefer listening over reading, or for accessibility purposes. The tool supports a wide array of underlying TTS backends (XTTSv2, Bark, VITS, Fairseq, Tacotron2, YourTTS and more), which gives flexibility depending on hardware availability, voice preference, and language. It also supports a huge number of languages — apparently “+1110 languages and dialects” in its supported set — making it suitable for eBooks in many languages. -
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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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edge-tts
Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from Python
edge-tts is a Python module and command-line tool that gives you direct access to Microsoft Edge’s online text-to-speech service without needing the Edge browser, Windows, or any API key. It wraps the same cloud voices used by Edge, exposing them through a simple CLI (edge-tts, edge-playback) and a Python API, so you can script high-quality speech generation in your own applications. The tool lets you list available voices, specify locale and voice name, and generate audio files in common formats like MP3 or WAV. It also supports generating subtitle files (such as SRT or VTT) alongside the speech, which is handy for video narration, e-learning, or accessibility workflows. From the CLI you can adjust parameters such as speaking rate, volume, and pitch, giving you some control over prosody without diving into SSML. The library is asynchronous under the hood, which makes it efficient for batch jobs or web services that need to synthesize many utterances concurrently. -
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pyttsx3
Offline Text To Speech synthesis for python
pyttsx3 is an offline text-to-speech library for Python that wraps native speech engines instead of calling cloud APIs. It is designed to work entirely without an internet connection, making it suitable for local automation, kiosks, accessibility tools, and embedded applications. On Windows it uses SAPI5, on Linux it typically uses eSpeak or eSpeak-NG, and on macOS it can use NSSpeechSynthesizer or AVSpeechSynthesizer, giving it broad cross-platform compatibility. The library exposes a simple but flexible API for controlling voice selection, speaking rate, volume, and other synthesis parameters from Python code. It supports both a high-level speak convenience function and a lower-level engine object with event hooks, queuing, and saving output to audio files. The repository includes examples and documentation that show how to adjust properties dynamically, persist synthesized output, and integrate pyttsx3 into GUIs or background services. -
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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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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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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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Pot Desktop
A cross-platform software for text translation and recognition
Pot-Desktop is a cross-platform productivity tool aimed at helping users quickly translate, perform OCR (optical character recognition), and synthesize speech for selected text or images — all with minimal friction. It supports picking text via mouse selection (“highlight-and-translate”), clipboard listening, or screenshot-based OCR; this makes it ideal for reading webpages, documents, images — or any on-screen text — and instantly getting translations or text extraction. The tool supports external plugin extensions, which means its functionality can be expanded far beyond the built-in options: you can add translation engines, OCR backends, TTS engines, vocabulary export (e.g. for language learning), and more. Pot-Desktop works on Windows, macOS, and Linux (including Wayland environments), and offers convenient installers or package-manager installation methods (e.g. via brew or .deb, etc.), so it’s accessible for users on all major desktop OSes. -
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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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Readest
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader
Readest is a project meant to facilitate reading, studying, or consuming content by integrating reading tools with AI-powered assistance. Although the repository is not as widely documented or popular as some, the idea is that Readest supports features to help with reading comprehension — likely combining OCR / text retrieval, translation, note-taking, or summarization for reading materials (eBooks, articles, PDFs). The goal appears to be to let users feed in arbitrary reading material and then interact with it (highlighting, translation, lookup, maybe TTS or summarization) more comfortably. Because of that, it's oriented towards learners, researchers, or people dealing with multilingual documents — especially when they need to rapidly digest or reference large amounts of text. The design seems to prioritize flexible input formats, possibly OCR or uploaded documents, and interactive tools to navigate or annotate them. -
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OpenAI.fm
Code for openai.fm, a demo for the OpenAI Speech API
OpenAI.fm is an official interactive demo application built to showcase the OpenAI Speech API and its advanced text-to-speech capabilities, providing developers and creators with a hands-on web interface to convert text into high-quality, customizable audio using state-of-the-art TTS models. Developed using Next.js and the OpenAI Speech API, this demo illustrates how the latest neural voice models can produce natural, expressive speech with adjustable styles and voices, highlighting features like emotional range, tone, and real-time playback. Users can experiment with different input text and voice options directly in their browser, gaining a sense of how high-fidelity AI audio can be integrated into applications ranging from podcasts and narration to accessibility tools and interactive agents. Although the web demo is free to explore, production use of the underlying API requires an OpenAI API key and may incur costs based on usage.
