Piper TTS

Piper TTS

Rhasspy
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About

MiniMax Speech 2.8 is a next-generation AI speech model built to make synthetic voice feel alive, expressive, and deeply human. It focuses on performance in real-world voice agent scenarios, combining ultra-fast response, richer emotional expression, cleaner audio, and stronger cross-lingual performance for products that need natural spoken interaction. Speech 2.8 is designed to reduce the distance between AI voice and real human communication, giving developers and creators more control over how a voice sounds, reacts, and carries meaning. It supports flexible emotion control, allowing users to shape delivery with moods, tone, and expressive direction instead of relying on flat or robotic speech. It can produce speech with more natural pauses, cadence, emphasis, and emotional texture, helping AI characters, assistants, narrators, and interactive agents sound more believable across longer conversations.

About

Piper is a fast, local neural text-to-speech (TTS) system optimized for devices like the Raspberry Pi 4, designed to deliver high-quality speech synthesis without relying on cloud services. It utilizes neural network models trained with VITS and exported to ONNX Runtime, enabling efficient and natural-sounding speech generation. Piper supports a wide range of languages, including English (US and UK), Spanish (Spain and Mexico), French, German, and many others, with voices available for download. Users can run Piper via the command line or integrate it into Python applications using the piper-tts package. The system allows for real-time audio streaming, JSON input for batch processing, and supports multi-speaker models. Piper relies on espeak-ng for phoneme generation, converting text into phonemes before synthesizing speech. It is employed in various projects such as Home Assistant, Rhasspy 3, NVDA, and others.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

AI app developers, voice product teams, game studios, and content creators who need a realistic speech model for real-time agents, multilingual narration, AI companions, voiceovers, and emotionally expressive audio experiences

Audience

Developers and hobbyists searching for a solution to improve their neural text to speech operations

Support

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Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
Singapore
www.minimax.io/news/minimax-speech-28

Company Information

Rhasspy
United States
github.com/rhasspy/piper

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Google
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Categories

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Integrations

JSON
MiniMax
Python

Integrations

JSON
MiniMax
Python
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