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