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TLDR

Mozilla TTS is a Python library that converts text into spoken audio using AI, it covers the full pipeline from text to audio file, supports over 20 languages, and lets you train custom voice models.

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    What it does
      Text to speech
      Custom voice training
      Multi-language support
    Pipeline Stages
      Text to spectrogram
      Spectrogram to audio
      Speaker encoder
    Supported Models
      Tacotron2
      Glow-TTS
      WaveRNN
      MelGAN
    Features
      Multi-speaker voices
      Multi-GPU training
      Mobile deployment
      Demo web server
    Use Cases
      Voice assistants
      Audiobook generation
      Voice cloning
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Generate spoken audio from text in over 20 languages using a pre-trained model with a single pip install and terminal command.

USE CASE 2

Train a custom AI voice model on recordings of a specific speaker to produce that person's voice style from text.

USE CASE 3

Build a voice assistant or audiobook generator that synthesizes natural-sounding speech without a cloud API.

USE CASE 4

Deploy a trained voice model to an Android or iOS app using TFLite for on-device speech generation.

Tech stack

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowTFLiteJupyter Notebook

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Quick inference via pip is straightforward, training a custom voice requires a GPU and a prepared audio dataset.

In plain English

Mozilla TTS is a Python library for converting text into spoken audio using AI. It was built by Mozilla's research team and covers the full pipeline from typed words to a finished audio file. The library has been used to build products in over 20 languages. The system works in two main stages. First, a text-to-spectrogram model (such as Tacotron2 or Glow-TTS) converts text into a visual representation of sound frequencies called a spectrogram. Second, a vocoder model (such as WaveRNN or MelGAN) converts that spectrogram into an actual audio waveform you can listen to. You can mix and match models for each stage depending on how much you care about speed versus audio quality. If you just want to generate speech from existing pre-trained voices, you can install it in one line via pip and run it from the terminal. If you want to train your own voice model on a custom dataset, you clone the code, prepare your audio data, write a short configuration file, and run a training script. The repository includes tools to check your dataset for quality issues before training, and training logs are shown both in the terminal and in Tensorboard, a visual monitoring tool. The library also includes a speaker encoder, which learns to represent different voices as numbers. This enables multi-speaker models that can produce different voice styles from a single trained model. Training can run across multiple GPUs for speed, and trained models can be converted to TensorFlow or a compact format called TFLite for deployment on mobile devices. A demo server is included for testing models through a web interface. Pre-trained models are available for download from the project's wiki.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using Mozilla TTS, write the Python code to install it via pip and convert a paragraph of English text into a WAV audio file using a pre-trained model.
Prompt 2
I have 10 hours of recorded audio from a single speaker. Walk me through preparing the dataset and running the Mozilla TTS training script to clone that voice.
Prompt 3
How do I set up a multi-speaker Mozilla TTS model that produces different voice styles from a single checkpoint, and how do I choose which speaker to use at inference time?
Prompt 4
Show me how to convert a trained Mozilla TTS model to TFLite format so I can run speech synthesis on an Android device without a network connection.
Prompt 5
How do I launch the Mozilla TTS demo web server to test a pre-trained model through a browser interface?
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