Coqui TTS: Free Text-to-Speech

bendangelo · 2025-04-05T05:42:07 1743831727

This is dead. I recommend Kokoro TTS https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS

rhdunn · 2025-04-05T07:45:09 1743839109

There's a maintained version of the codebase at https://github.com/idiap/coqui-ai-TTS. The model is dead though, due to the license.

BrunoJo · 2025-04-05T06:24:13 1743834253

yes, or if you are looking for a cheap Kokoro TTS API I would recommend https://www.lemonfox.ai/text-to-speech-api

oezi · 2025-04-05T06:33:06 1743834786

Zonos and Fish Audio are two other new options.

ipsum2 · 2025-04-05T05:51:40 1743832300

This is a spam website that was not created by the people who created Coqui TTS. This is the original: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

gattilorenz · 2025-04-05T06:26:29 1743834389

The original has great documentation if you want to train your own model.

The original Python package (TTS) is abandoned, but a fork that works with the latest python is just a “pip install coqui-tts” away

loufe · 2025-04-05T05:23:23 1743830603

I couldn't find anything on the site relating to donations, and it doesn't have commercial restrictions nor a clear major company backing it. I wonder where the funding is coming from.

andersmmg · 2025-04-05T05:45:10 1743831910

It was originally run by a company that also offered a platform, but it has since shut down. Not sure of the source of this new site

willwade · 2025-04-05T05:38:37 1743831517

Is there anything new here? I thought this pretty much is dead. Most models available in Sherpa onnx and piper right?

dharmab · 2025-04-05T06:08:08 1743833288

Piper is also dead, though it's also still the best option for local TTS on low-spec devices.

Kokoro is probably best local TTS overall if your target platform and hardware support it.

willwade · 2025-04-05T07:26:17 1743837977

Piper isn’t dead. I know because I’ve been working with the team recently

dharmab · 2025-04-05T08:25:18 1743841518

Could you ask them to look at my open PR then? The macOS build has been broken for well over a year: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/pull/678

oezi · 2025-04-05T06:32:04 1743834724

Kokoro is missing a lot of relevant languages.