Piper
CLILocal 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.
A fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds espeak-ng for phonemization.
Install with:
pip install piper-tts
- 🎧 Samples
- 💡 Demo
- 🗣️ Voices
- 🖥️ Command-line interface
- 🌐 Web server
- 🐍 Python API
- 🔧 C/C++ API
- 🏋️ Training new voices
- 🛠️ Building manually
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
- NVDA - NonVisual Desktop Access
- Image Captioning for the Visually Impaired and Blind: A Recipe for Low-Resource Languages
- Video tutorial by Thorsten Müller
- Open Voice Operating System
- JetsonGPT
- LocalAI
- Lernstick EDU / EXAM: reading clipboard content aloud with language detection
- Natural Speech - A plugin for Runelite, an OSRS Client
- mintPiper
- Vim-Piper
- POTaTOS
- Narration Studio
- Basic TTS - Simple online text-to-speech converter.
Bindings to use Piper in programming languages other than Python and C/C++:
- Java: Piper JNI
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