Fish Speech
A multilingual text-to-speech and voice cloning model you run yourself, with Docker images and a web UI.
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About Fish Speech
Fish Speech is the speech model project from Fish Audio, published on GitHub for people who want to generate speech and clone voices on their own hardware. The repository includes a web UI, an API server, Docker Compose files, including a ROCm variant for AMD GPUs, and a notebook for inference.
It is a large, actively maintained project with documentation. It suits developers and hobbyists who want a local alternative to hosted voice services.
Strengths
- Runs locally with a web UI
- Docker Compose setups, including AMD ROCm
- Voice cloning and multilingual speech
- Large, active project with documentation
Limitations
- Needs a capable GPU and some setup
- License terms should be checked before commercial use
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download and run; check the repository license for usage terms.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Fish Audio
- Platforms
- Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Self-hosted
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Developers who want self-hosted voice cloning and speech generation
- Categories
- Local AI tools, AI voice
- Last verified
- Added
Alternatives to Fish Speech
Compare allSoftware that can replace Fish Speech for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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.
Fish Speech as an alternative
Listings that name Fish Speech as an alternative.
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.
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Kokoro-FastAPI
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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.
