Model · Voice and speech, Music and sound

Bark

A free, downloadable model that turns text into speech in 13 languages, and can add laughs, sighs, background noise or a little music. It picks from 100+ preset voices and can't copy a real person's voice.

Go to Bark’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Fully open
Weights and code downloadable under a standard open licence
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Licence: MIT License (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))
Relicensed to MIT on 1 May 2023 (earlier releases were under a non-commercial licence).
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
README: MIT licence means it is available for commercial use.
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Cost: Free option: Free to download; free demo on Hugging Face
Plans below.
How you use it: On your own computer, Through another service
Hugging Face demo Space (suno/bark) and Transformers support from v4.31.0. English quality is best.
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Skill needed: Technical
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Made by: Suno
Published under the suno-ai GitHub organisation; no country stated.
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Status: Available
Released 20 April 2023; no deprecation notice on the README, which also points readers to Suno's text-to-music models.
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, read my text aloud (main use)
Music and sound, sound effects

text to audio

Also nonverbal sounds (laughing, crying) and simple music; sound effects are described as simple.

source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page

Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

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Where you can run it

Hugging Face

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About this entry

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