VoxCPM2: open-source voice cloning from a short sample
VoxCPM2 by OpenBMB is a 2B-parameter open TTS: 30 languages, 48kHz output, Apache-2.0 licensed, so voiceovers and podcasts can run on your own machine.
Text to speech
Published entries across all sections carrying the “Text to speech” tag, newest first by publication date on this site.
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ElevenLabs ships v4 and v4 Turbo: 90+ languages, ~100ms Turbo latency
ElevenLabs released v4 and v4 Turbo on September 28: 90+ languages, 10-second voice cloning and ~100ms Turbo latency for voice agents, available now via API.
html-explainer: turn any topic into a narrated explainer video
html-explainer is an open-source Agent Skill for Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents: give it a topic and it runs research, narration, voiceover, subtitles, frame-by-frame rendering and covers end to end, producing a hard-subtitled MP4. Scenes are written in HTML/CSS/GSAP and rendered with a deterministic seek renderer, so audio and animation stay locked in sync. The default edge-tts voiceover is free and everything runs locally.
yovoice: an open-source voice studio that never leaves your machine
The usual way to narrate a video is pasting a script into a cloud TTS: per-character pricing, generic voices, and your unpublished text on someone else's server. yovoice runs 7 local TTS models through audio.cpp on your own hardware, clones a voice from a 1-60 second clip, and ships a full record-trim-export workflow plus a CLI and an Agent Skill. Apache-2.0, for macOS and Windows.
ebook2audiobook: A Local Ebook-to-Audiobook Converter
An open-source tool that converts ebooks into audiobooks entirely on your own machine, with multiple built-in TTS engines, voice cloning, and support for 1,158 languages, producing an m4b with chapters and metadata — no cloud service needed, and it runs on as little as 2GB of RAM.