Directory › Speech (STT / TTS)
Speech (STT / TTS)
10 self-hostable speech (stt / tts) — verified and locality-checked.
OpenAI Whisper
Robust open-weight speech recognition and translation model and reference code
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI Whisper for fast local speech-to-text on CPU/GPU
Coqui TTS
Deep-learning toolkit for local text-to-speech including XTTS voice cloning
Bark
Transformer-based text-to-audio model for local speech, music and effects
faster-whisper
CTranslate2 reimplementation of Whisper for faster local transcription
WhisperX
Whisper with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization for local ASR
Piper TTS
Fast, local neural text-to-speech optimized for Raspberry Pi and edge devices
Vosk
Offline speech recognition toolkit with small models for many languages
Kokoro TTS
Lightweight 82M-parameter open-weight TTS model with fast local inference
F5-TTS
Flow-matching TTS with high-quality zero-shot voice cloning (weights CC-BY-NC)