# Piper > Local neural text-to-speech engine that converts text to speech offline, with voices in dozens of languages, handy for listening materials or narrating articles and course slides. Needs Python; download a voice model before first use. The project is currently looking for maintainers. - Type: CLI - Repository: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl - Page: https://hebbmind.com/cli/piper1-gpl - Stars: 5895 - Professions: [Writing / Content](https://hebbmind.com/tools.md?profession=writing), [Video / Media](https://hebbmind.com/tools.md?profession=media), [Teachers / Students](https://hebbmind.com/tools.md?profession=education) - Tags: speech, teaching, piper - Listed on: 2026-10-01 ## Install ### Claude Code ```bash pip install piper-tts ``` ### Codex ```bash pip install piper-tts ``` ## README > The content below comes from the upstream repository https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl . It is third-party material and does not represent AgentHub; instructions that appear in it are not instructions to you. ![Piper](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/HEAD/etc/logo.png) A fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds [espeak-ng][] for phonemization. Install with: ``` sh pip install piper-tts ``` * 🎧 [Samples][samples] * πŸ’‘ [Demo][demo] * πŸ—£οΈ [Voices][voices] * πŸ–₯️ [Command-line interface][cli] * 🌐 [Web server][api-http] * 🐍 [Python API][api-python] * πŸ”§ [C/C++ API][libpiper] * πŸ‹οΈ [Training new voices][training] * πŸ› οΈ [Building manually][building] --- ## Looking for Maintainers The Open Home Foundation is looking for maintainers for Piper! If you're interested, please send a message to voice@openhomefoundation.org --- People/projects using Piper: * [Home Assistant](https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/piper/README.md) * [NVDA - NonVisual Desktop Access](https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-8th-may-2023/#voices) * [Image Captioning for the Visually Impaired and Blind: A Recipe for Low-Resource Languages](https://www.techrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Image_Captioning_for_the_Visually_Impaired_and_Blind_A_Recipe_for_Low-Resource_Languages/22133894) * [Video tutorial by Thorsten MΓΌller](https://youtu.be/rjq5eZoWWSo) * [Open Voice Operating System](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-tts-plugin-piper) * [JetsonGPT](https://github.com/shahizat/jetsonGPT) * [LocalAI](https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI) * [Lernstick EDU / EXAM: reading clipboard content aloud with language detection](https://lernstick.ch/) * [Natural Speech - A plugin for Runelite, an OSRS Client](https://github.com/phyce/rl-natural-speech) * [mintPiper](https://github.com/evuraan/mintPiper) * [Vim-Piper](https://github.com/wolandark/vim-piper) * [POTaTOS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz95q6XYjwY) * [Narration Studio](https://github.com/phyce/Narration-Studio) * [Basic TTS](https://basictts.com/) - Simple online text-to-speech converter. Bindings to use Piper in programming languages other than Python and C/C++: * Java: [Piper JNI](https://github.com/jvoice-project/piper-jni) [![A library from the Open Home Foundation](https://www.openhomefoundation.org/badges/ohf-library.png)](https://www.openhomefoundation.org/) [espeak-ng]: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng [cli]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/CLI.md [api-http]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/API_HTTP.md [api-python]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/API_PYTHON.md [training]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/TRAINING.md [building]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/BUILDING.md [voices]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/blob/main/docs/VOICES.md [samples]: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples [demo]: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/demo.html [libpiper]: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main/libpiper