piper1-gpl

A fast and local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds [espeak-ng][] for phonemization.

Install with:

pip install piper-tts

• [Samples][samples]
• [Demo][demo]
• ️ [Voices][voices]
• ️ [Command-line interface][cli]
• [Web server][api-http]
• [Python API][api-python]
• [C/C++ API][libpiper]
• ️ [Training new voices][training]
• ️ [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 [email protected]

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 [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