voice cloning / text-to-speech
A PyTorch-based real-time voice cloning TTS system that clones a speaker from 5 seconds of audio and generates arbitrary speech in Chinese and English.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Choose when you want the original, English-focused implementation of the same cloning pipeline with more community documentation.
Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Choose when you prefer an actively maintained PaddlePaddle speech toolkit with voice cloning and broader ASR/TTS features over MockingBird's PyTorch pipeline.
Easy-to-use Speech Toolkit including Self-Supervised Learning model, SOTA/Streaming ASR with punctuation, Streaming TTS with text frontend, Speaker Verification System, End-to-End Speech Translation and Keyword Spotting. Won NAACL2022 Best Demo Award.
Choose if you want a more expressive foundation-model TTS and don't need recent updates (repo dormant).
Foundational model for human-like, expressive TTS
Choose when you have extremely little data (1 min) and want high-quality few-shot cloning with active updates.
1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)
Choose for a multipurpose TTS toolkit with several model options and cloning support, though development has stalled.
🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
Choose for a newer tokenizer-free multilingual TTS/cloning model that is actively maintained.
VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning
Choose when you need a research toolkit to experiment with multiple speech-generation approaches including zero-shot TTS.
Amphion (/æmˈfaɪən/) is a toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation. Its purpose is to support reproducible research and help junior researchers and engineers get started in the field of audio, music, and speech generation research and development.
Choose if you want a comprehensive end-to-end speech toolkit that supports TTS recipes; heavier than MockingBird.
End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit
Choose for high-quality multilingual voice cloning with 600+ languages.
High-Quality Voice Cloning TTS for 600+ Languages
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Choose for a research-grade zero-shot TTS/VC baseline, but it is dated and less maintained.
YourTTS: Towards Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS and Zero-Shot Voice Conversion for everyone
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
Choose when you want a ready-to-use GUI application for voice cloning and dubbing instead of embedding a Python library.
VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.
These projects were analysed and named MockingBird among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how MockingBird rates them is a separate judgement, made when MockingBird is analysed in its own right.
calls MockingBird “Same SV2TTS architecture; choose it if you want a maintained variant with recent activity and Chinese-language support.”
Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
calls MockingBird “A standalone real-time voice-cloning TTS; choose it when you only need cloning and prefer a simpler, separate PyTorch system over Coqui's full toolkit.”
🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
calls MockingBird “Choose when you need a straightforward voice cloning TTS as a simple baseline, similar to Real-Time-Voice-Cloning.”
Amphion (/æmˈfaɪən/) is a toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation. Its purpose is to support reproducible research and help junior researchers and engineers get started in the field of audio, music, and speech generation research and development.
calls MockingBird “choose it for instant voice cloning from a short sample, accepting a heavy Python/PyTorch pipeline.”
eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
calls MockingBird “Choose it when you need few-shot voice cloning from seconds of audio rather than a fixed Chinese multi-speaker model.”
Chinese Mandarin tts text-to-speech 中文 (普通话) 语音 合成 , by fastspeech 2 , implemented in pytorch, using waveglow as vocoder, with biaobei and aishell3 datasets
calls MockingBird “For an older, simple voice cloning TTS; choose if you need a lightweight cloning demo, but it's not multilingual.”
Lightning-Fast, On-Device, Multilingual TTS — running natively via ONNX.
calls MockingBird “Voice cloning TTS, narrower scope; a classic project but not a full toolkit.”
Easy-to-use Speech Toolkit including Self-Supervised Learning model, SOTA/Streaming ASR with punctuation, Streaming TTS with text frontend, Speaker Verification System, End-to-End Speech Translation and Keyword Spotting. Won NAACL2022 Best Demo Award.
calls MockingBird “choose for real-time voice cloning rather than general TTS; narrower use case.”
:robot: :speech_balloon: Deep learning for Text to Speech (Discussion forum: https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/tts)
calls MockingBird “Use for a simple voice-cloning demo with limited language coverage and older architecture.”
High-Quality Voice Cloning TTS for 600+ Languages
calls MockingBird “choose for older Chinese voice cloning; it is unmaintained.”
EmotiVoice 😊: a Multi-Voice and Prompt-Controlled TTS Engine
calls MockingBird “choose for Chinese real-time voice cloning, accepting an older unmaintained codebase.”
VITS: Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech
calls MockingBird “Choose when you want a simple voice-cloning GUI; it's a demo application, not a library to integrate.”
End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit