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24 alternatives to local-tts

Make your coding agent talk to you! Offline!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters. This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! We're releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Convert text to speech with natural voices free online

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    MARS5 TTS▲489

    Open-source, insanely prosodic text-to-speech model

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source TTS with emotion & voice cloning

    2025 · canopylabs.ai · its alternatives →

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    For speech-to-text, large-language-model inference and text-to-speech I created three wrapper libraries in C/C++ (using Whisper.cpp, Llama.cpp and Piper). Follow the URL to see an example that shows how to use these libraries for a speech-to-text, LLM inference, text-to-speech pipeline. Windows and Linux are supported.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Inworld TTSfree tier, from $25/mo▲318

    Hey HN, this is Igor, one of the engineers behind Inworld Runtime, which we're releasing today in public preview. We built it to solve the common problem we and our customers had: engineers spend more time on AI ops and plumbing than on actual feature development. This was often due to the challenge of using Python for I/O-bound, high-concurrency workloads and complexity maintaining pipelines with streams that use always-changing ML models. Our solution is a high-performance runtime written in C++ with the core idea of defining AI logic as graphs. For instance, a basic voice-to-voice…

    2025 · inworld.ai · its alternatives →

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    2012 · tts-api.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time text-to-speech model you can self-host

    May 2026 · kugelaudio.com · its alternatives →

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    The voice for your real-time AI applications

    2025 · kyutai.org · its alternatives →

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    Learn how to extract text from audio files locally using Python, Whisper, and other powerful tools. Complete setup guide with practical examples.

    2025 · pavlinbg.com · its alternatives →

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    Easiest way to add text to audio functionality to your apps

    2022 · listnr.ai · its alternatives →

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    Code Mode▲144

    I’ve been testing a simple idea inspired by Apple/Cloudflare/Anthropic: LLMs are far better at writing a small program than coordinating multiple tool calls. So instead of giving the model 10+ tools, I exposed one: a TypeScript sandbox with access to the same interfaces. The model writes a script → it runs once → done. What changed - +68% reduction in token use - No multi-step drift or retries - Local models (Llama 3.1 8B / Phi-3) became much more reliable Repo: https://github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/code-mode Curious whether others have seen…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free text to speech online with AI voices. Generate and download browser TTS audio with no signup, WAV or MP3 export, and engine-specific offline support.

    Jul 2026 · offlinetts.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote a small local tool to transcribe audio notes (Whisper/Parakeet). Code: https://github.com/bilawalriaz/lazy-notes I wanted to process raw transcripts locally without OpenRouter. Llama 3.2 3B with a prompt was decent but incomplete, so I tried SFT. I fine-tuned Llama 3.2 3B to clean/analyze dictation and emit structured JSON (title, tags, entities, dates, actions). Data: 13 real memos → Kimi K2 gold JSON → ~40k synthetic + gold; keys canonicalized. Chutes.ai (5k req/day). Training: RTX 4090 24GB, ~4h, LoRA (r=128, α=128, dropout=0.05), max seq 2048,…

    2025 · bilawal.net · its alternatives →

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    Control your Mac with your voice locally

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Natural text-to-speech that works fully offline

    Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Harness local AI for notes

    Jul 2026 · voice-to-md.xajik0.workers.dev · its alternatives →

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    Voxabot▲67

    Text to speech editor with SSML and API connections

    2020 · voxabot.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered speech to text, tts, & translation Mac app

    Oct 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source website that can speak what you type!

    2021 · offlinetexttospeech.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Kokori▲101

    Transform text to speech with a powerful macOS app

    Jan 2026 · kokori.app · its alternatives →

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    Verby▲72

    Free text to speech converter with SSML editor

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    A real-time transcription project using React and socketio - GitHub - saharmor/realtime-transcription-playground: A real-time transcription project using React and socketio

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A state-of-the-art large language model for coding

    2023 · ai.meta.com · its alternatives →

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