Audio & speech

Text-to-speech, speech-to-text, music and voice models and tools: releases and guides to adding speech to an app.

RoundupAudio & speech
Open source text to speech you can run yourself: Piper, Kokoro and more
Compare open source text to speech engines Piper, Kokoro, Coqui TTS and Chatterbox by licence, languages and hardware, then pick one you can ship.
Oct 4, 20267 min read
GuideAudio & speech
Transcribe audio locally with Whisper: openai-whisper, whisper.cpp or faster-whisper
Transcribe audio locally with Whisper using openai-whisper, whisper.cpp or faster-whisper, export SRT or VTT subtitles, and match the tool to your hardware.
Oct 4, 20266 min read

Open source text to speech you can run yourself: Piper, Kokoro and more