Model · Voice and speech

Parler-TTS

A free, open text-to-speech model for English where you describe the voice in words (for example 'a calm female voice, very clear audio') and it reads your text that way. Includes 34 named voices. Free for commercial use.

Go to Parler-TTS’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Fully open
Weights and code downloadable under a standard open licence
Weights, training code, datasets and pre-processing are all released.
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Licence: Apache License 2.0 (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
Follows from Apache 2.0.
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Cost: Free option: Free to download; official demo Space on Hugging Face
Plans below.
How you use it: On your own computer, Through another service
Not deployed by any Hugging Face inference provider; demo at huggingface.co/spaces/parler-tts/parler_tts.
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Skill needed: Technical
Python install; the hosted demo needs no setup.
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Made by: Hugging Face (parler-tts project)
Card is published by the parler-tts organisation and links to the code at github.com/huggingface/parler-tts; it reproduces a method from Stability AI and University of Edinburgh researchers. No country stated.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, read my text aloud (main use)
A voice or speech, a brand-new voice from a description

text to audio

Voice style (gender, pitch, speed, noise, reverb) set by a text description.

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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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