Text-to-speech models read text aloud in a natural voice for voice bots, phone menus, videos and training courses. Some can clone a voice from a short sample. Look at quality in your target languages, generation speed, the license and the rights to use someone else's voice.
Microsoft speech models: long multi-voice dialogue synthesis, fast synthesis for live conversation, and recognition of long recordings split by speaker, including in Russian.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and precise duration control, handy for video dubbing. Controls emotion separately from timbre.
Models from Meituan, China's largest delivery service. LongCat-Flash adjusts compute to query complexity; LongCat-2.0 has 1.6 trillion parameters under MIT. Omni models (Flash-Omni, Next) and AudioDiT speech synthesis too.
Expressive speech and dialogue synthesis with voice cloning, plus recognition models. Version 3 of the synthesis supports about 100 languages, including Russian, but is non-commercial.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and fine control over emotion, speed and pitch.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and adjustable expressiveness. The multilingual version supports 23 languages, including Russian; Turbo and Flash are sped up for live dialogue.
A speech synthesis family: multi-voice dialogue voicing (TTSD), fast synthesis for live conversation and the tiny Nano. Version 1.5 supports 30+ languages, including Russian.
Very fast, lightweight speech synthesis that runs directly on the device, without a GPU or the cloud. Supertonic 3 speaks 31 languages, including Russian.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and natural intonation. VoxCPM2 supports 30 languages, including Russian.
Streaming speech recognition and synthesis models from the makers of Moshi: they start speaking and transcribing without waiting for the end of a phrase. Pocket TTS (100M) runs on a CPU. English, French and a few other European languages, no Russian.
Mistral's speech models: they understand audio, transcribe and answer questions about a recording. The Realtime version recognizes speech live and supports Russian; speech synthesis is also available.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning and emotion control in 80+ languages, including Russian. Quality is close to paid services, but the weights are for research only.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning from a short sample in 646 languages, including Russian and languages of Russia's peoples. A voice can be described in words. Weights are for non-commercial use only.
Speech synthesis in 10 languages, including Russian: voice cloning from 3 seconds, ready-made voices and creating a voice from a text description.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning from a short sample and streaming output for live dialogue. Version 3 supports 9 languages, including Russian.
Lightweight Russian speech synthesis that runs on a regular CPU. Version v5 added CIS languages and languages of Russia's peoples: Tatar, Bashkir, Yakut, Kazakh and others.
A model that voices entire two-person dialogues with laughter, sighs and pauses. English only.
Offline Russian speech recognition that runs even on a Raspberry Pi or a phone, without internet. Streaming models for live audio and simple Russian speech synthesis, Vosk TTS, are available.
Russian speech synthesis with voice cloning based on the F5-TTS architecture, trained on Russian speech datasets collected by the authors. Stress is placed automatically. Several variants, including a "podcaster" one.
Speech synthesis with voice cloning: a 5-second sample is enough, and after fine-tuning on a minute of recording the voice sounds noticeably more accurate. Use only with the voice owner's consent.
Very fast speech synthesis that runs even on a Raspberry Pi. Ready-made voices in 35+ languages, including several Russian ones.
A voice cloning model that needs only a few seconds of a sample, in English and Chinese. The community has released many fine-tuned versions for other languages, including Russian.
Language-model-based speech synthesis with lively intonation and emotional cues. Responds quickly, suitable for voice assistants. Mainly English.
A conversational speech model that takes the context of the conversation into account and sounds like a real person. English only.
A tiny speech synthesis model (82M) that sounds on par with large ones. Runs on a regular CPU; English and a few other languages, no Russian.
Speech synthesis where the voice is set by a text description ("a calm female voice, clean recording"). English and 8 European languages, no Russian.
Instant voice cloning from a short sample with control over emotion and accent; V2 speaks several languages. Use only with the voice owner's consent.
Lightweight multilingual speech synthesis that keeps up in real time on an ordinary CPU. English with accents, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean; no Russian.
A lightweight English speech synthesis model with natural intonation. Many other models, such as Kokoro, are built on it.
A popular model for cloning a voice from a short sample in 17 languages, including Russian. Coqui has shut down and development has stopped.
One of the first open models to voice text with intonation, laughter and pauses. Supports about ten languages, including Russian. Now outdated.
An open model can run on your own server: data stays in-house, there is no per-request fee, and the model can be fine-tuned on your documents.
