32 stories tagged text-to-speech, newest first.
54 points by Gcarter08 | 23 comments
Hugging Face model card for Hurston-1, an Apache-2.0 narrowband text-to-speech model fine-tuned from Maya1 for Southern American and African English accents over phone lines.
144 points by janpmz | 74 comments
Page for PDF to MP3, a tool that lets users connect their existing OpenAI subscription to convert PDF documents into audiobooks, with a demo video.
310 points by swolpers | 137 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS audio generation models, available across AI Studio, Gemini API, and other Google products.
544 points by petewarden | 79 comments
GitHub directory for Moonshine's micro build, offering speech recognition and neural text-to-speech small enough to run on microcontrollers like the RP2350.
493 points by speckx | 92 comments
Blog post by Ariya Hidayat on running Kokoro, a high-quality text-to-speech model, locally on a CPU, with an embedded demo video.
346 points by tosh | 169 comments
GitHub repository for Microsoft's VibeVoice, an open-source frontier voice AI project covering TTS and ASR models.
510 points by rohan_joshi | 169 comments
GitHub repository for KittenTTS, an open-source series of tiny text-to-speech models (80M, 40M, 14M parameters) designed to run on-device without a GPU.
531 points by nicktikhonov | 152 comments
Blog post by Nick Tikhonov describing how he built a voice agent with ~400ms end-to-end latency using streaming STT, LLM, and TTS with turn detection.
697 points by Palmik | 212 comments
Qwen team blog post announcing the open-source release of the Qwen3-TTS model family for voice design, voice cloning, and speech generation.
594 points by pain_perdu | 142 comments
Kyutai blog post introducing Pocket TTS, a 100M-parameter text-to-speech model with voice cloning that runs in real time on a laptop CPU.
331 points by sammyyyyyyy | 116 comments
GitHub repository for Sopro, a lightweight 169M-parameter text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on CPU, under Apache-2.0.
406 points by lastdong | 150 comments
Project page for Microsoft's VibeVoice, an open-source TTS model generating up to 90 minutes of multi-speaker conversational audio using LLM and diffusion.
321 points by mzehrer | 78 comments
GitHub repository for Abogen, an open-source tool that generates audiobooks with synchronized captions from EPUBs, PDFs and text using text-to-speech.
897 points by divamgupta | 343 comments
GitHub repository for Kitten TTS, an open-source, CPU-only text-to-speech model under 25MB with 15M parameters and eight English voices.
630 points by pinter69 | 182 comments
GitHub repository for Chatterbox, Resemble AI's open-source state-of-the-art text-to-speech model released under the MIT license.
480 points by koljab | 202 comments
GitHub repository for RealtimeVoiceChat, an open-source project for natural spoken conversation with an AI at low latency.
584 points by toebee | 170 comments
GitHub repository for Dia, an Apache-2.0 licensed open-weights text-to-speech model by Nari Labs that generates realistic dialogue in one pass.
610 points by KuzeyAbi | 285 comments
OpenAI.fm is an interactive demo where developers can try OpenAI's new text-to-speech model with selectable voices, vibes, and scripts.
346 points by monroewalker | 179 comments
Sesame research post by Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar and team on building natural-sounding conversational voice AI, with an interactive demo.
362 points by csantini | 219 comments
Blog post introducing Audiblez, a tool that converts EPUB e-books into audiobooks using the Kokoro-82M open text-to-speech model.
328 points by ahmetd | 70 comments
Countless.dev is a free, open-source website for comparing AI models such as LLMs, TTS, and STT, with price comparison, a pricing calculator, and versus views.
581 points by yunusabd | 173 comments
HN Update is a web player for an hourly AI-generated audio news broadcast summarizing top Hacker News stories.
842 points by simonw | 440 comments
Simon Willison blog post on Google NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature, which generates AI-hosted podcast discussions from user-provided sources, with an example.
621 points by leblancfg | 227 comments
Landing page for Google Illuminate, an experimental tool that turns papers and books into AI-generated audio discussions, with public examples and a waitlist.
387 points by ulrischa | 220 comments
MyShell research page introducing OpenVoice, an instant voice cloning method with style control and zero-shot cross-lingual cloning, linking to paper and code.
405 points by nickmcc | 102 comments
GitHub repository for WhisperSpeech, Collabora's open source text-to-speech system built by inverting OpenAI's Whisper model.
365 points by saeedesmaili | 171 comments
arXiv paper introducing OpenVoice, a voice cloning method that replicates a speaker's voice from a short clip with style control and zero-shot cross-lingual support.
414 points by ralfelfving | 153 comments
GitHub repository for macOSpilot, an open-source Electron app that sends screenshots and voice questions to OpenAI Vision and speaks the answers back.
668 points by sandslides | 220 comments
GitHub repository for StyleTTS 2, an open-source text-to-speech model using style diffusion and adversarial training with large speech language models.
386 points by isbn | 161 comments
Landing page for the Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection, thousands of free audiobooks generated with Microsoft AI text-to-speech, with links to listen, code, and paper.
615 points by crakenzak | 193 comments
GitHub directory in Meta's fairseq repository containing code and models for Massive Multilingual Speech (MMS), covering ASR, TTS, and language ID for 1000+ languages.
373 points by obi1kenobi | 78 comments
GitHub repository for Bark, Suno AI's open-source text-prompted generative audio model that produces speech, music, and sound effects.