Multilingual
10 projects tagged Multilingual, in the order of our ranking. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.
Most often they replace ElevenLabs, Descript or Grammarly. 10 of 10 run on your own machine. The most starred is Voicebox, with 59k stars on GitHub.
| Compare | Project | Runs on my machine | Allowed at work | Paid services | Hardware | Setup | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoiceboxLocal desktop voice studio that clones voices, generates speech with 8 TTS engines, transcribes with Whisper and adds system-wide dictation. | Yes | ConditionsMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 59k | |
| LanguageToolRule-based grammar, spelling and style checker for 25+ languages; the core and HTTP server are open source (LGPL), Premium and AI rules are not. | Yes | ConditionsLGPL-2.1 or later | Optional only | No graphics card needed | Medium | 15k+30 this week | |
| PiperFast, local neural text-to-speech engine with downloadable voices in 40+ languages, used by Home Assistant and NVDA. | Yes | ConditionsGPL-3.0 | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 6.1k+98 this week | |
| LimeSurveyLong-running PHP survey platform with 30+ question types, branching, 80+ languages, statistics and a RemoteControl API. GPL-2.0-or-later. | Yes | ConditionsGPL-2.0-or-later | None required | No graphics card needed | Medium | 3.8k+7 this week | |
| ChatterboxResemble AI's family of open TTS models (Turbo, Nano, Multilingual) with zero-shot voice cloning from a reference clip. | Yes | YesMIT | Optional only | No graphics card needed | Easy | 28k+218 this week | |
| HunspellWidely used spell-checking library and command-line tool behind LibreOffice, Firefox and Chrome spell check, with dictionaries for many languages. | Yes | ConditionsLGPL, GPL or MPL | None required | No graphics card needed | Hard | 2.6k+6 this week | |
| LTeX+Language server and VS Code extension that runs LanguageTool offline to check grammar and spelling in LaTeX, Markdown, Typst and other markup. | Yes | ConditionsMPL-2.0 | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 262+2 this week | |
| OpenVoiceMyShell's instant voice cloning model with tone-colour transfer, style control and cross-lingual cloning; MIT code and weights. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Medium | 38k+44 this week | |
| KokoroLightweight 82M-parameter open-weight text-to-speech model with a pip-installable Python inference library. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | None required | See its page | Easy | 9.9k+186 this week | |
| MeloTTSMultilingual text-to-speech library from MyShell.ai and MIT covering English accents, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Medium | 7.7k+13 this week |
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