Text-to-speech
18 projects tagged Text-to-speech, 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 Suno. 17 of 18 run on your own machine. The most starred is GPT-SoVITS, with 65k stars on GitHub.
| Compare | Project | Runs on my machine | Allowed at work | Paid services | Hardware | Setup | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-SoVITSFew-shot voice cloning and TTS WebUI; 5-second zero-shot or 1-minute fine-tune, five languages, MIT code and weights. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 65k+808 this week | |
| Fish SpeechFish Audio's multilingual TTS and voice cloning stack (Drama 3, S2-Pro) under a source-available community licence. | Yes | ConditionsFish Audio Community License 1.0, not OSI open source | Optional only | GPU, about 24 GB | Medium | 34k+136 this week | |
| 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 | |
| F5-TTSFlow-matching text-to-speech research model that clones a voice zero-shot from a reference audio clip. | Yes | NoMIT | None required | See its page | Medium | 16k+44 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 | |
| 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 | |
| yovoiceLocal desktop audio studio for macOS and Windows that makes songs and instrumentals with ACE-Step 1.5, alongside text-to-speech and voice cloning. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | Optional only | GPU, about 12 GB | Easy | 2.0k+130 this week | |
| ClaudemyClaude Code skill that researches any topic on the web and builds a course of about 12 two-minute audio lessons with cards and cited sources. | Yes | YesMIT | Optional only | No graphics card needed | Easy | 596 | |
| AutoShorts (gameplay)Python tool that picks moments from long videos (gameplay first), crops to 9:16 and adds styled captions and optional AI voiceovers. NVIDIA GPU only. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | Optional only | Needs a graphics card | Hard | 206+1 this week | |
| Presenter (Bisque)Agent skills that turn a repo, PR or doc into narrated slides with speech made on your machine, published to a free watch link on bisque.today. | Partly | YesMIT | Optional only | No graphics card needed | Easy | 35+5 this week | |
| Coqui TTSPython TTS library with many models (XTTS-v2, VITS, YourTTS, Bark, Tortoise); original repo unmaintained, continued by idiap fork. | Yes | ConditionsMPL-2.0 | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 46k+32 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 | |
| Dia1.6B-parameter English text-to-dialogue model from Nari Labs with two-speaker tags, non-verbal sounds and audio-prompt voice cloning. | Yes | YesApache-2.0 | None required | GPU, about 4.4 GB | Easy | 19k+2 this week | |
| Sesame CSMSesame's 1B Conversational Speech Model that generates speech from text plus optional conversational audio context. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | None required | See its page | Medium | 15k+5 this week | |
| Orpheus TTSLlama-based 3B speech LLM from Canopy Labs for expressive, emotive, low-latency streaming text-to-speech. | Yes | ConditionsApache-2.0 | Optional only | No graphics card needed | Medium | 6.4k+13 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 | |
| StyleTTS 2Research text-to-speech model using style diffusion and adversarial training, with pretrained LJSpeech and LibriTTS checkpoints. | Yes | ConditionsMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Medium | 6.4k+5 this week |
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