OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine

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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:

Bindings to use Piper in programming languages other than Python and C/C++:

Java: Piper JNI

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