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Open TTS

Open-weights text-to-speech and voice-cloning models from the last year. Each entry states the licence of the weights, or says that it is not stated. Editors score each one on whether it is real, useful, notable and novel.

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  • Open text-to-speech models

    21 itemsvoice, cloning, tts, english, audio

    Accepted by AI

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Makers
20
Shipped
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Editor scores (AI-assisted first pass), mean of 21 items

Real4.1
Useful3.5
Notable3.5
Novel3.2
Mean hype gap
▼ −0.4 under
Makers

Who made them

  • Fish Audio2
  • Boson AI1
  • BreezeBlue1
  • Eugene Kwek1
  • FunAudioLLM1
  • Hume AI1
  • k2-fsa1
  • Microsoft1
  • Mistral AI1
  • Nari Labs1
  • NineNineSix1
  • NVIDIA1
  • OpenBMB1
  • OpenMOSS Team1
  • Qwen1
  • Resemble AI1
  • Soul-AILab1
  • StepFun1
  • Supertone1
  • Z.ai1
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  1. 1
    Fish Audio releases Drama 3, a 35B mixture-of-experts TTS for multi-character scenes
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsFish Audio (fishaudio)1 Oct
    makerFish Audiotaskmulti-speaker speechtaskvoice cloning
    Hype gap ▬ 0.0 level
    Shipped
    Real3.5
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass
  2. 2
    BreezeBlue releases Breeze-TTS-2, a 3B English and Chinese TTS, non-commercial
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsBreezeBlue (BreezeBlue)25 Aug
    makerBreezeBluetaskvoice cloningtaskvoice design
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  3. 3
    NVIDIA releases MagpieTTS Multilingual 357M v2607, 12 languages with preset voices
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsNVIDIA (nvidia)21 Jul
    makerNVIDIAtaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▼ −1.0 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel2.5
    AI first pass
  4. 4
    Boson AI releases Higgs TTS 3, a 4B zero-shot voice cloning model for 100+ languages
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsBoson AI (bosonai)4 Jun
    makerBoson AItaskvoice cloningtaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.2 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable4.0
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  5. 5
    Supertone releases Supertonic 3, a 99M on-device TTS in 31 languages
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsSupertone (Supertone)6 May
    makerSupertonetaskon-device speech synthesis
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  6. 6
    OpenBMB releases VoxCPM2, a 2B Apache 2.0 TTS with voice design and 48 kHz output
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsOpenBMB (openbmb)3 Apr
    makerOpenBMBtaskvoice cloningtaskvoice design
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful4.0
    Notable4.0
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass
  7. 7
    k2-fsa releases OmniVoice, a 0.6B zero-shot TTS covering 600+ languages
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsk2-fsa (k2-fsa)30 Mar
    makerk2-fsataskvoice cloningtaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▬ 0.0 level
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable4.0
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass
  8. 8
    Mistral releases Voxtral TTS, a 4B open-weights speech model, non-commercial
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsMistral AI (mistralai)26 Mar
    makerMistral AItaskvoice agentstaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.2 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable4.0
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  9. 9
    Fish Audio releases S2 Pro, a 5B TTS model for 80+ languages, research licence
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsFish Audio (fishaudio)9 Mar
    makerFish Audiotaskexpressive speechtaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  10. 10
    NineNineSix releases KaniTTS2-en, a 400M English TTS with voice cloning
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsNineNineSix (nineninesix)12 Feb
    makerNineNineSixtaskvoice cloningtaskreal-time speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.8 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.0
    Notable2.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  11. 11
    OpenMOSS Team releases MOSS-TTS, an 8B Apache 2.0 voice cloning and long-form TTS
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsOpenMOSS Team (OpenMOSS-Team)6 Feb
    makerOpenMOSS Teamtaskvoice cloningtasklong-form speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful4.0
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass
  12. 12
    Qwen releases Qwen3-TTS, Apache 2.0 voice cloning in 10 languages
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsQwen (Qwen)22 Jan
    makerQwentaskvoice cloningtasktext-to-speechtaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful4.0
    Notable4.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  13. 13
    Hume AI releases TADA-1B, an English TTS that aligns one speech vector per text token
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsHume AI (HumeAI)12 Jan
    makerHume AItasktext-to-speech
    Hype gap ▲ +0.2 over
    Shipped
    Real3.5
    Useful3.0
    Notable3.0
    Novel4.0
    AI first pass
  14. 14
    Soprano-80M: an 80M Apache 2.0 TTS that claims 2000x real time on GPU
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsEugene Kwek (ekwek)22 Dec
    makerEugene Kwektaskon-device speech synthesis
    Hype gap ▼ −0.8 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful3.0
    Notable3.0
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  15. 15
    FunAudioLLM releases Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512, an Apache 2.0 voice cloning TTS
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsFunAudioLLM (FunAudioLLM)11 Dec
    makerFunAudioLLMtaskvoice cloningtaskmultilingual speech
    Hype gap ▼ −1.0 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful4.0
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  16. 16
    Z.ai releases GLM-TTS, an MIT-licensed Chinese and English voice cloning model
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsZ.ai (zai-org)10 Dec
    makerZ.aitaskvoice cloningtasktext-to-speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  17. 17
    Microsoft releases VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a streaming TTS model under MIT
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsMicrosoft (microsoft)4 Dec
    makerMicrosofttaskstreaming text-to-speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.2 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.0
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  18. 18
    Resemble AI releases Chatterbox-Turbo, a 350M MIT TTS built for voice agents
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsResemble AI (ResembleAI)2 Dec
    makerResemble AItaskvoice cloningtaskvoice agents
    Hype gap ▼ −0.8 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.0
    AI first pass
  19. 19
    Nari Labs releases Dia2-2B, a streaming English dialogue TTS under Apache 2.0
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsNari Labs (nari-labs)15 Nov
    makerNari Labstaskdialogue speechtaskstreaming text-to-speech
    Hype gap ▼ −0.2 under
    Shipped
    Real4.0
    Useful3.0
    Notable3.0
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass
  20. 20
    StepFun releases Step-Audio-EditX, a 3B open-weights model for editing and generating speech
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsStepFun (stepfun-ai)12 Nov
    makerStepFuntasktext-to-speechtaskspeech editing
    Hype gap ▼ −0.5 under
    Shipped
    Real4.5
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.5
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass
  21. 21
    Soul-AILab releases SoulX-Podcast-1.7B, a multi-speaker podcast TTS in English and Chinese
    huggingface.co§ Open weightsSoul-AILab (Soul-AILab)27 Oct
    makerSoul-AILabtaskmulti-speaker speechtaskvoice cloning
    Hype gap ▼ −0.2 under
    Shipped
    Real3.5
    Useful3.5
    Notable3.0
    Novel3.5
    AI first pass