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.
Features
- Zero-shot voice cloning: synthesize a target speaker’s voice from a short sample
- Improved neural TTS pipeline with conformer encoder + BigVGAN2 vocoder for natural, clear audio
- Hybrid linguistic modeling (character + pinyin) to improve pronunciation quality in Chinese and other languages with complex orthography
- Efficient inference and faster synthesis compared to many open-source alternatives
- Configurable controls (duration, prosody, pitch, speed) for customizability and synchrony in multimedia contexts
- Open source, modular, and suitable for both experimentation and production deployment