Open Source Python Text to Speech Software for Linux
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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VoiceFixer
General Speech Restoration
VoiceFixer is a machine-learning framework for “speech restoration”: given a degraded or distorted audio recording — with noise, clipping, low sampling rate, reverberation, or other artifacts — it attempts to recover high-fidelity, clean speech. The architecture works in two stages: first an analysis stage that tries to extract “clean” intermediate features from the noisy audio (e.g. removing noise, denoising, dereverberation, upsampling), and then a neural vocoder-based synthesis stage that reconstructs a high-quality waveform from those features. Unlike many single-purpose noise reduction tools, VoiceFixer targets a “general speech restoration” problem (GSR), capable of handling multiple types of distortions at once, which makes it suitable for old recordings, phone-call audio, amateur voice recordings, or archival media. Evaluations show that VoiceFixer significantly improves both objective and subjective audio quality compared to baseline speech-enhancement methods. -
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Luna AI
Virtual AI anchor that combines state-of-the-art technology
Luna AI is a virtual AI streamer framework designed to power an interactive VTuber that can go live on major platforms and chat with viewers in real time. It is built around a core assistant persona called “Luna AI,” which can be driven by a wide range of large language models and platforms, including GPT-style APIs, Claude, LangChain-based backends, ChatGLM, Kimi, Ollama, and many others. The project supports multiple rendering backends for the avatar, such as Live2D, Unreal Engine (UE), and “xuniren,” and can output to streaming platforms like Bilibili, Douyin, Kuaishou, WeChat Channels, Pinduoduo, Douyu, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok. For voice, it integrates with numerous TTS engines (Edge-TTS, VITS-Fast, ElevenLabs, VALL-E-X, OpenVoice, GPT-SoVITS, Azure TTS, fish-speech, ChatTTS, CosyVoice, F5-TTS, MultiTTS, MeloTTS, and others), and can optionally pass the output through voice conversion systems like so-vits-svc or DDSP-SVC to change timbre. -
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OpenVoice
Instant voice cloning by MIT and MyShell. Audio foundation model
OpenVoice is a versatile instant voice cloning system that can replicate a speaker’s tone color from just a short audio clip and then generate speech in multiple languages. It is designed not only to match the timbre of the reference voice, but also to give granular control over style parameters such as emotion, accent, rhythm, pauses, and intonation. The model supports cross-lingual and even zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning, so a speaker recorded in one language can be made to speak naturally in others. Architecturally, OpenVoice separates “tone color” cloning from style control, which makes it easier to keep a consistent identity while flexibly changing prosody or language. The project provides open-weight models, inference code, and examples, making it suitable both for research and for building production voice experiences. It is actively developed by MyShell, which also integrates OpenVoice into broader agent and entertainment workflows. -
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ChatTTS webUI & API
A simple native web interface that uses ChatTTS to synthesize text
ChatTTS-ui is a local web interface and API wrapper around the ChatTTS speech synthesis system, designed to make advanced TTS models easy to use from a browser. It runs a small backend server (Python + Torch + ffmpeg) and exposes a simple webpage where you can type text, adjust parameters, and generate audio. The project supports Chinese, English, and mixed text with digits and control symbols, making it suitable for bilingual content and numerically heavy text like announcements or prompts. From version 0.96 onward, ffmpeg installation is required for deployment, and previous CSV/PT voice tables are no longer valid, so users instead work with updated “voice value” parameters. For convenience, there is a prepackaged Windows build: you download a release archive, extract it, and double-click app.exe to start the web UI, which opens on localhost:9966. -
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Chatterbox TTS Server
Self-host the powerful Chatterbox TTS model
Chatterbox-TTS-Server is a self-hosted server for running the Chatterbox text-to-speech model through both a web interface and API endpoints. It is designed for users who want local or private speech generation without depending entirely on a hosted voice platform. The project supports predefined voices, voice cloning, and longer text workflows, making it useful for audiobooks, narration, content tools, and assistant-style applications. It also includes OpenAI-compatible API behavior, which helps developers connect it to existing tools that already expect that style of endpoint. The server can run on NVIDIA CUDA, AMD ROCm, or CPU, giving it flexibility across different hardware setups. Its main value is packaging a powerful TTS workflow into a practical service that can be accessed through a browser or integrated into other software. -
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WhisperLive
A nearly-live implementation of OpenAI's Whisper
WhisperLive is a “nearly live” implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper model focused on real-time transcription. It runs as a server–client system in which the server hosts a Whisper backend and clients stream audio to be transcribed with very low delay. The project supports multiple inference backends, including Faster-Whisper, NVIDIA TensorRT, and OpenVINO, allowing you to target GPUs and different CPU architectures efficiently. It can handle microphone input, pre-recorded audio files, and network streams such as RTSP and HLS, making it flexible for live events, monitoring, or accessibility workflows. Configuration options let you control the number of clients, maximum connection time, and threading behavior so the server can be tuned for different deployment environments. On the client side, you can set the language, whether to translate into English, model size, voice activity detection, and output recording behavior. -
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Fish Speech
SOTA Open Source TTS
Fish Speech is a state-of-the-art open-source text-to-speech project that has evolved into the OpenAudio series of advanced TTS models. The repository hosts the code and tooling for training, fine-tuning, and serving high-quality TTS, while the current flagship models (OpenAudio-S1 and S1-mini) are distributed via Fish Audio’s playground and Hugging Face. The models are evaluated with Seed TTS metrics and achieve exceptionally low word and character error rates, indicating strong intelligibility and alignment between text and audio. Fish Speech emphasizes expressive and controllable voices: it supports a long list of emotion tags, tone markers, and special audio effect markers that can be embedded in the text to drive prosody and vocal style, from basic emotions to nuanced states like sarcastic, conciliative, or hysterical. The system is multilingual and cross-lingual, handling multiple languages in a single input without explicit phoneme markup, and is trained on large-scale datasets. -
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Pocket TTS
A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket)
Pocket TTS is a lightweight text-to-speech project designed to run efficiently on CPUs, targeting developers who want local speech generation without depending on GPUs or hosted web APIs. It is built to feel practical in everyday applications, where installation and usage should be as simple as adding a dependency and calling a function. The project focuses on keeping the runtime footprint manageable while still producing natural-sounding speech, which makes it attractive for offline tools, prototypes, and privacy-sensitive workflows. Because it is CPU-oriented, it fits well in server environments where GPU access is limited, in desktop apps, or in edge deployments where simplicity matters more than maximum throughput. It also emphasizes developer ergonomics, providing a straightforward API surface that can be integrated into pipelines, assistants, accessibility tools, or batch generation scripts. -
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VoxCPM
TTS for Context-Aware Speech Generation and True-to-Life Voice Cloning
VoxCPM is a tokenizer-free text-to-speech system that models speech in a continuous space, aiming for extremely realistic, context-aware synthesis and true-to-life zero-shot voice cloning. Instead of converting speech into discrete tokens, it uses an end-to-end diffusion-autoregressive architecture built on the MiniCPM-4 backbone, combining hierarchical language modeling, finite scalar quantization (FSQ), and local Diffusion Transformers. This design helps decouple semantic and acoustic information while preserving fine-grained prosody, leading to more stable and expressive generation than many discrete-token systems. Trained on a large 1.8-million-hour bilingual corpus, VoxCPM can infer appropriate speaking style from context, dynamically adjusting intonation, rhythm, and emotional tone. It supports zero-shot voice cloning from a short reference audio clip, capturing timbre, accent, and pacing to closely mimic a target speaker without per-speaker fine-tuning. -
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ChatTTS
A generative speech model for daily dialogue
ChatTTS is an open-source conversational text-to-speech model optimized for dialogue, developed by 2Noise. Trained on 100,000+ hours of English and Chinese conversation data, it excels at generating expressive prosody—pauses, interjections, laughter—for more natural-sounding speech synthesis in assistant and chatbot applications. -
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VoxCPM2
Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation
VoxCPM2 is an advanced open-source text-to-speech system that redefines speech synthesis by eliminating traditional tokenization and instead generating continuous speech representations through a diffusion-based autoregressive architecture. Built on top of the MiniCPM model family, it enables highly natural, expressive, and context-aware speech generation that adapts tone, emotion, and pacing directly from input text. The system is trained on massive multilingual datasets, enabling support for dozens of languages and dialects while maintaining high fidelity and realism in generated audio. VoxCPM stands out for its ability to perform voice cloning with minimal input, capturing not only the speaker’s timbre but also nuanced features such as rhythm, accent, and emotional delivery. It also introduces voice design capabilities, allowing users to generate entirely new voices from natural language descriptions without requiring reference audio. -
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TensorFlowTTS
Real-Time State-of-the-art Speech Synthesis for Tensorflow 2
TensorFlowTTS is a state-of-the-art, open-source speech synthesis library built on TensorFlow 2. It offers a variety of architectures for text-to-speech, including classic and modern models such as Tacotron‑2, FastSpeech / FastSpeech2, and neural vocoders like MelGAN and Multiband‑MelGAN. Because it’s based on TensorFlow 2, it can leverage optimizations such as fake-quantization aware training and pruning — which allow models to run faster than real time and to be deployable on mobile or embedded platforms. The library supports multiple languages (English, French, Korean, Chinese, German, etc.) and is relatively easy to adapt to new languages. With integrated vocoder + mel-spectrogram generation pipelines, pre-trained models, and fairly flexible architecture, TensorFlowTTS is a great off-the-shelf and extensible TTS engine for applications ranging from voice assistants to content generation or accessibility tools.
