Coqui TTS (XTTS)
Leading#1 in Open sourcehigh confidence
The gold-standard open-source TTS / voice-cloning toolkit (~45.8k GitHub★) — XTTS v2 clones a voice from a 3-second clip across many languages.Our read
Why it ranks #1
One of the most-starred open-source TTS toolkits at roughly 46k GitHub stars and a standard recommendation in open voice-cloning roundups, though the original repository is now archived.Here is the catch
upstream repository is archived and no longer actively maintained
GPU setup and model compatibility can be difficult
license terms differ across included models and must be checked
Does this well
mature toolkit with broad model and language coverage
high-quality zero-shot cloning from a short reference clip
large body of community examples and integrations
Pricing
Checked by hand on 2026-07-23. Prices in this category change often — if this looks wrong, it probably is.
Key features
multilingual XTTS voice cloningtraining and fine-tuning pipelinespretrained TTS and vocoder modelsPython API and command-line tools
Quick facts
More in this area
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- 3OpenVoice (MyShell)MyShell's instant voice cloning (~37k GitHub★) — strong tone/emotion control and low-latency inference. Widely adopted open cloner.
- 4RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion)The de-facto open voice-conversion tool (~36.6k GitHub★) — best balance of quality, speed and ease for real-time voice changing/cloning.
- 5Fish Speech (fishaudio)Fast, high-quality multilingual TTS / cloning (~31.4k GitHub★) — a newer entry gaining strong traction for its speed-quality balance.
- 6Chatterbox (Resemble AI)Resemble AI's open TTS (~25.7k GitHub★) — a top 2026 pick for expressive, production-grade local speech with emotion control.
- 7F5-TTSA fast diffusion-transformer TTS with strong zero-shot cloning (~15k GitHub★) — notable and actively used, below the top repos on adoption.