Coqui TTS
Deep-learning text-to-speech toolkit, including the XTTS voice cloning model.
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- 2024-08-16
Live from the GitHub API · updated 2026-10-15
What is Coqui TTS?
Coqui TTS provides many pretrained TTS models and training recipes, including XTTS-v2 for multilingual voice cloning from a few seconds of audio. Coqui the company has shut down; the community fork published as coqui-tts on PyPI continues maintenance.
Key features
- Dozens of pretrained voices and languages
- XTTS-v2 voice cloning from a short sample
- Training and fine-tuning recipes
- CLI and local server
System requirements
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- GPU
- Optional; NVIDIA recommended for XTTS
- Python
- 3.10–3.12 (fork)
How to install Coqui TTS
Summarized from the project’s README. Projects change quickly — check the GitHub page for the latest instructions.
pip (maintained fork)
- 1Install the community-maintained package.
pip install coqui-tts - 2Synthesize speech.
tts --text "Hello from open-source TTS" --out_path speech.wav
Strengths
- Huge model zoo
- Voice cloning
Limitations
- Original repo no longer maintained
- XTTS weights use the non-commercial Coqui Public Model License
Coqui TTS alternatives compared
| Software | Stars | License | Platforms | VRAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coqui TTS Deep-learning text-to-speech toolkit, including the XTTS voice cloning model. | 46.1K | MPL-2.0 | — | |
| F5-TTS Zero-shot voice cloning TTS based on flow matching. | 15.4K | MIT | — | |
| Kokoro A tiny 82M-parameter TTS model with surprisingly natural voices. | 9.3K | Apache-2.0 | — | |
| GPT-SoVITS Few-shot voice cloning and TTS with a full training WebUI. | 62.8K | MIT | 6 GB+ | |
| Fish Speech Multilingual TTS and voice cloning from Fish Audio. | 33.1K | Apache-2.0 | 4 GB+ | |
| Whisper OpenAI’s open-source speech recognition and translation model. | 110.5K | MIT | ~1 GB (tiny) to ~10 GB (large) |
FAQ
Is Coqui TTS free?
Yes — Coqui TTS is open-source software released under the MPL-2.0 license. Check the license (and any model weight licenses) before commercial use.
Does Coqui TTS run on Windows, Mac and Linux?
Coqui TTS supports: Windows, macOS, Linux.
What hardware do I need for Coqui TTS?
Optional; NVIDIA recommended for XTTS
How do I install Coqui TTS?
1. Install the community-maintained package. 2. Synthesize speech.
What are the best Coqui TTS alternatives?
Popular alternatives include F5-TTS, Kokoro, GPT-SoVITS, Fish Speech. See the comparison table on this page.