Text to speech

Generate speech from text, with voice cloning on some models, on your own hardware.

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Text to speech
Tool	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
GPT-SoVITS	62k	MIT	Open source	Yes	Python	20250606v2pro	2026-10-06
Fish Speech	33k	Other	Source available	Yes	Python	v1.5.1	2026-10-05
Chatterbox	27k	MIT	Open source	Yes	Python	v0.1.2	2026-07-21
IndexTTS	24k	Other	Source available	Yes	Python	v2.5.0	2026-09-29
CosyVoice	24k	Apache-2.0	Open source	Yes	Python	v2.0	2026-05-25
ebook2audiobook	20k	Apache-2.0	Open source	Yes	Python	v26.10.1	2026-10-06
F5-TTS	15k	MIT	Open source	Yes	Python	1.1.22	2026-09-21
Piper	5.8k	GPL-3.0	Open source	Yes	C++	v1.8.0	2026-09-28
Kokoro-FastAPI	5.5k	Apache-2.0	Open source	Yes	Python	v0.9.0	2026-10-05

9 tools

GPT-SoVITS

1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)

Language: Python
Licence: MIT
Stars: 62k
Latest: 20250606v2pro
Last push: 2026-10-06

Fish Speech

SOTA Open Source TTS

Language: Python
Licence: Other
Stars: 33k
Latest: v1.5.1
Last push: 2026-10-05

Chatterbox

SoTA open-source TTS

Language: Python
Licence: MIT
Stars: 27k
Latest: v0.1.2
Last push: 2026-07-21

IndexTTS

An Industrial-Level Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech System

Language: Python
Licence: Other
Stars: 24k
Latest: v2.5.0
Last push: 2026-09-29

CosyVoice

Multi-lingual large voice generation model, providing inference, training and deployment full-stack ability.

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 24k
Latest: v2.0
Last push: 2026-05-25

ebook2audiobook

Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1158+ languages!

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 20k
Latest: v26.10.1
Last push: 2026-10-06

F5-TTS

Official code for "F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching"

Language: Python
Licence: MIT
Stars: 15k
Latest: 1.1.22
Last push: 2026-09-21

Piper

Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine

Language: C++
Licence: GPL-3.0
Stars: 5.8k
Latest: v1.8.0
Last push: 2026-09-28

Kokoro-FastAPI

Dockerized OpenAI-compatible wrapper for Kokoro-82M text-to-speech w/multiplatform CPU, AMD, NVIDIA GPU PyTorch; multi-speaker, clone-tuning, caption timestamps, SSML, optional readalong web UI

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 5.5k
Latest: v0.9.0
Last push: 2026-10-05

What these tools replace

ElevenLabsText to speech9 →