Try https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (smaller option) or https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo . Run the parakeet model using nemo library and use something like https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper or https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp for the latter Answer from Few-Welcome3297 on reddit.com
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Text to speech
In our experience, obtaining satisfactory results from this model can be challenging. The quality of the speaker embeddings appears to be a significant factor. Since SpeechT5 was pre-trained with English x-vectors, it performs best when using English speaker embeddings.
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What models can I use for Text-to-Speech?
The KittenML/kitten-tts-nano-0.1, ResembleAI/chatterbox, fishaudio/fish-speech-1.5, and nari-labs/Dia-1.6B-0626 models can be used for Text-to-Speech.
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What is Text-to-Speech? - Hugging Face
What is Text-to-Speech?
Text-to-Speech (TTS) is the task of generating natural sounding speech given text input. TTS models can be extended to have a single model that generates speech for multiple speakers and multiple languages.
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What is Text-to-Speech? - Hugging Face
What libraries can I use for Text-to-Speech?
The espnet, tensorflowtts, transformers, and transformers.js libraries are compatible with Text-to-Speech.
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What is Text-to-Speech? - Hugging Face
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Speech2Text
Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights. The bare Speech To Text Text Model outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on to.
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What is Text-to-Speech? - Hugging Face
Text-to-Speech • Updated Mar 25 • 1.87k • 657 · Note A massively multi-lingual TTS model.
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Pre-trained models for text-to-speech - Hugging Face Audio Course
SpeechT5 is a model published by Junyi Ao et al. from Microsoft that is capable of handling a range of speech tasks. While in this unit, we focus on the text-to-speech aspect, this model can be tailored to speech-to-text tasks (automatic speech recognition or speaker identification), as well as speech-to-speech (e.g.
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GitHub - huggingface/parler-tts: Inference and training library for high-quality TTS models.
The remaining speech features (gender, speaking rate, pitch and reverberation) can be controlled directly through the prompt · We've set up an inference guide to make generation faster. Think SDPA, torch.compile and streaming! ... The training folder contains all the information to train or fine-tune your own Parler-TTS model.
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Automatic Speech Recognition Models – Hugging Face
Text-to-Speech · Text-to-Audio · Automatic Speech Recognition · Audio-to-Audio · Audio Classification · Voice Activity Detection · Tabular · Tabular Classification · Tabular Regression · Time Series Forecasting · Reinforcement Learning · Reinforcement Learning ·
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r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit: 🎧 Listen and Compare 12 Open-Source Text-to-Speech Models (Hugging Face Space)
July 6, 2025 -
Hey everyone!
We have been exploring various open-source Text-to-Speech (TTS) models, and decided to create a Hugging Face demo space that makes it easy to compare their quality side-by-side.
The demo features 12 popular TTS models, all tested using a consistent prompt, so you can quickly hear and compare their synthesized speech and choose the best one for your audio projects.
Would love to get feedback or suggestions!
👉 Check out the demo space and detailed comparison here!
👉 Check out the blog: Choosing the Right Text-to-Speech Model: Part 2
Share your use-case and we will update this space as required!
Which TTS model sounds most natural to you?
Cheers!
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Nice to have it all in one place. It'd be even nicer to have an apples to apples comparison, thus all female or all male voices, instead of mixed like it's now. Maybe both? The CSM example sounds like it's full of artifacts, just like F5-TTS - and both were highlighted for speech quality. Maybe something went wrong during generation? At least Sesame can sound way better. The Llasa sample seems slightly broken - that's maybe a hint that this happens more often? Same with the background noise for MegaTTS3. Orpheus was probably standing in a large room during the generation 😉.
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Cool project! And thanks for the work you put into it and making it a useful tool for others! I'd love to see Chatterbox and Kyutai added to the mix as well. At least, assuming they are open-source, if they aren't, of course, ignore this.
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r/LocalLLaMA on Reddit: What's the Best Speech-to-Text Model Right Now?
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I am looking for the best Speech-to-Text/Speech Recognition Models, anyone could recommend any?
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Try https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (smaller option) or https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo . Run the parakeet model using nemo library and use something like https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper or https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp for the latter
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Check out the HF ASR leaderboard. https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard Assume you are looking for an open source one? I am a fan of the nvidia parakeet series but it depends on your use case.
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Realistic Text To Speech Unlimited - a Hugging Face Space by NihalGazi
Enter text, choose a voice and emotion, and generate audio. The text is checked for appropriateness before conversion. You'll get an audio file as a result.
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Speech to Text Models - a SamuraiBarbi Collection
Unlock the magic of AI with handpicked models, awesome datasets, papers, and mind-blowing Spaces from SamuraiBarbi
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Real-Time Text-to-Speech Model - Models - Hugging Face Forums
January 4, 2025 - Greetings everyone, I’m currently looking for real-time tts model that can create an audio as soon as I type. Kindly guide me in this regard.
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GitHub - huggingface/speech-to-speech: Speech To Speech: an effort for an open-sourced and modular GPT4-o
The pipeline provides a fully open and modular approach, with a focus on leveraging models available through the Transformers library on the Hugging Face hub.
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Speech Synthesis, Recognition, and More With SpeechT5
Here is a complete example of how to use the SpeechT5 text-to-speech model to synthesize speech. You can also follow along in this interactive Colab notebook. SpeechT5 is not available in the latest release of Transformers yet, so you'll have ...
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How to Use Hugging Face Transformers for Text-to-Speech Applications - KDnuggets
Hugging Face provides a variety of pre-trained models that can turn text into speech. For TTS applications, you can use models like Tacotron2 or FastSpeech2. These models have been trained to convert text into human-like speech.
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TTS Arena: Benchmarking Text-to-Speech Models in the Wild
Just submit some text, listen to two different models speak it out, and vote on which model you think is the best. The results will be organized into a leaderboard that displays the community’s highest-rated models. The field of speech synthesis has long lacked an accurate method to measure the quality of different models.
Modal
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The Top Open-Source Text to Speech (TTS) Models
This article explores the top open-source TTS models, based on Hugging Face’s trending models and insights from our developer community.
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Text-to-Speech (TTS) models - a unsloth Collection
A collection of 4-bit, Dynamic 4-bit and 16-bit voice models including Sesame-CSM, OpenAI's Whisper, Orpheus. Fine-tune them with Unsloth now! Upvote · 25 · +15 · Text-to-Speech • 3B • Updated Jul 9 • 2.06k • 6 · Text-to-Speech • ...
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fractalego/personal-speech-to-text-model · Hugging Face
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