Alternatives to Kokoro-FastAPI
A Dockerized, OpenAI-compatible server for running the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on your own hardware. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Kokoro-FastAPI
A Dockerized, OpenAI-compatible server for running the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on your own hardware.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Kokoro-FastAPI.
Speaches
A self-hosted, OpenAI API-compatible server for local speech-to-text, translation and text-to-speech models.
Speaches is an MIT-licensed self-hosted OpenAI-compatible server that adds speech-to-text and streaming transcription, and serves both Kokoro and Piper voices through Docker.
Kokoro
Small, fast open-weight text-to-speech model you can run locally.
Kokoro is the underlying Apache-2.0 model used directly as a Python library, so moving drops the Docker server, OpenAI-compatible endpoint and caption timestamps.
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 a JSON API, voice cloning and finetuning on Windows and Linux, rather than an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Piper
A fast neural text-to-speech engine that runs locally, even on modest hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
Piper is a GPL-3.0 local engine fast enough for a Raspberry Pi, used from the command line, Python or a C library instead of an HTTP server.
MeloTTS
An open-source multilingual text-to-speech engine from MIT and MyShell.ai with a command line and web UI.
MeloTTS is an MIT-licensed multilingual engine with a command line, web UI and Dockerfile, offering several English accents and five other languages, though development has slowed.
Cartesia
An AI voice platform with an API for real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice agents.
Cartesia is a paid cloud API for real-time text-to-speech, transcription and voice agents, replacing your own hardware with a hosted service and no local option.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Speech Note
A Linux app for offline speech-to-text, text-to-speech and machine translation using local models.
Whisper
An open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI for transcribing and translating audio on your own machine.
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper for fast offline speech-to-text on your own hardware.
Chatterbox
Open source text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning.
Orpheus TTS
An open text-to-speech model built on a language model, aimed at natural, emotionally expressive speech.
ElevenLabs
An AI voice platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech to text and music.
