Alternatives to RHVoice

A free, open-source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages, used with screen readers and desktops. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as RHVoice.

  • Piper

    A fast neural text-to-speech engine that runs locally, even on modest hardware like a Raspberry Pi.

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    Piper is a GPL-3.0 neural engine that runs locally even on a Raspberry Pi, likely sounding more natural, but it has no graphical interface and targets integration use.

  • MeloTTS

    An open-source multilingual text-to-speech engine from MIT and MyShell.ai with a command line and web UI.

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    MeloTTS is an MIT-licensed local engine with several English accents and five other languages, though it needs Python or Docker setup and development has slowed.

  • Kokoro

    Small, fast open-weight text-to-speech model you can run locally.

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    Kokoro is a small Apache-licensed neural model that runs fast locally on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it is used as a Python library without a GUI.

  • Coqui TTS

    Deep learning toolkit for training and running text-to-speech models.

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    Coqui TTS is an MPL-2.0 toolkit with pretrained models in many languages and training support, but it needs deep learning familiarity and has seen no update since mid-2024.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.