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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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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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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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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KrillinAI
Video translation and dubbing tool powered by LLMs
KrillinAI is an end-to-end content localization, translation, and dubbing tool aimed at helping creators transform videos into multiple languages with minimal manual effort. It integrates several stages of the pipeline: video acquisition (either from local files or remote via download tools), speech recognition (ASR), subtitle segmentation and alignment, machine translation (with context-aware translation to preserve semantics), and voice cloning + text-to-speech (TTS) to produce dubbed audio tracks. KrillinAI supports both landscape and portrait videos, which makes it suitable for a wide range of platforms — from YouTube to TikTok or other vertical-video sites — and ensures correct formatting and layout for the final video. The tool offers “one-click” workflows and desktop versions, lowering the barrier for users who may not be familiar with video editing or audio processing pipelines. -
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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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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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Open JTalk is a Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system. This software is released under the Modified BSD license.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DramaBox
super expressive prompting model based on ltx2.3
DramaBox is an expressive text-to-speech and voice cloning project from Resemble AI built on top of the LTX-2.3 audio branch. It generates speech from prompts that control not only the spoken text, but also speaker identity, emotion, delivery style, laughs, sighs, pauses, and transitions. Users can optionally provide a voice reference of around 10 seconds or more to clone the target timbre while still guiding performance through scene-style prompting. The project includes a warm inference server, a CLI workflow, and a Gradio app for interactive generation. It also supports additional LoRA training on top of DramaBox, making it possible to adapt the model for a specific speaker, language flavor, or performance style. DramaBox is aimed at developers, researchers, and audio creators who need highly expressive English TTS for character dialogue, narrative audio, prototyping, or voice experimentation. -
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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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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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Phonon
Phonon TTS inference using xn
Phonon TTS is an open-source text-to-speech inference engine that generates natural-sounding speech locally on computers, mobile devices, and web browsers. Built in Rust, it operates without PyTorch or a cloud connection after downloading its models. The software provides compact 31-million and 40-million parameter models for efficient deployment. It supports English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese speech synthesis. Users can select predefined voices, create custom voices, or clone voices for supported applications. Its streaming architecture produces audio progressively to minimize playback delays. Hardware acceleration includes Apple Core ML, compatible Snapdragon NPUs, and GPU backends. Phonon integrates through Python, Swift, Rust, JavaScript, Android libraries, and OpenAI-compatible speech APIs. -
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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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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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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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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.
