Alternatives to Fish Speech
A multilingual text-to-speech and voice cloning model you run yourself, with Docker images and a web UI. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Fish Speech
A multilingual text-to-speech and voice cloning model you run yourself, with Docker images and a web UI.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Fish Speech.
CosyVoice
An open-source multilingual text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning, inference and training code.
CosyVoice is Apache-2.0 licensed with zero-shot multilingual cloning, training code, a web UI and vLLM support, avoiding Fish Speech's license questions but needing Linux and a GPU.
F5-TTS
Open-source text-to-speech model that can clone voices, with a local Gradio interface for running it.
F5-TTS clones voices from a short reference with a local Gradio interface on Windows, macOS and Linux, and is research code without a packaged installer.
IndexTTS
A zero-shot text-to-speech system you run yourself, with control over emotion and speech duration.
IndexTTS offers zero-shot cloning with control over emotion and duration and a bundled web UI, with license terms that also need checking for commercial use.
Zonos
An open-weight text-to-speech model with voice cloning that you run locally through a Gradio interface.
Zonos is an Apache-2.0 open-weight model with cloning, a Gradio interface and Docker setup, though it is an early v0.1 release with a small commit history.
GPT-SoVITS
A voice cloning and text-to-speech toolkit that can train a voice from about one minute of audio.
GPT-SoVITS trains a custom voice from about a minute of audio with a local web UI, API scripts and Docker or Colab options on Windows and Linux.
Chatterbox
Open source text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning.
Chatterbox is an MIT-licensed model with zero-shot cloning from very short samples, usable locally on Windows, macOS and Linux but without a dedicated GUI.
AllTalk TTS
A local text-to-speech server with voice cloning, model finetuning, a settings page and a JSON API.
AllTalk TTS is an AGPL-3.0 local server with cloning, finetuning, a settings page and JSON API, integrated with SillyTavern and other chat front ends.
Fish Audio
A web platform for AI text-to-speech, voice cloning and speech-to-text with a large community voice library.
Fish Audio is a freemium hosted platform for text-to-speech and voice cloning with a large community voice library, removing the GPU setup but running only online.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Fish Speech as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
ElevenLabs
An AI voice platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech to text and music.
Fish Speech runs multilingual voice cloning on your own GPU with a web UI and Docker, avoiding the cloud but needing setup and a license check.
OpenVoice
Open source instant voice cloning model with flexible style control.
Fish Speech is a self-hosted multilingual cloning model with a web UI and Docker, needing a capable GPU and a license check before commercial use.
Orpheus TTS
An open text-to-speech model built on a language model, aimed at natural, emotionally expressive speech.
Fish Speech is a self-hosted multilingual voice cloning model with a web UI and Docker Compose setups including AMD ROCm, and its license should be checked for commercial use.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Kokoro-FastAPI
A Dockerized, OpenAI-compatible server for running the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on your own hardware.
MeloTTS
An open-source multilingual text-to-speech engine from MIT and MyShell.ai with a command line and web UI.
Coqui TTS
Deep learning toolkit for training and running text-to-speech models.
