speaches-ai/speaches
speaches is an OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation. Speach-to-Text is powered by faster-whisper and for Text-to-Speech piper and Kokoro
- Stars
- 3.7k
- Forks
- 463
- Open issues
- 110
- Last push
- 1d ago
About speaches
speaches is a free, open-source AI voice and audio tool by speaches-ai, written mainly in Python. speaches is an OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation. Speach-to-Text is powered by faster-whisper and for Text-to-Speech piper and Kokoro. It has 3.7k GitHub stars and 463 forks, and was last updated 1d ago. It's released under the MIT license, a standard open-source license.
- License
- MIT
- Language
- Python
- Stars
- 3,733
- Last update
- 1d ago
- Runs on Mac
- Not stated
- GPU
- Not stated
- Paid API key
- Not required
- Self-hostable
- Yes
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speaches FAQ
Is speaches free?
Yes. speaches is open source and free to use. It's released under the MIT license, a standard open-source license.
Does speaches run on a Mac?
The project doesn't say. Check its installation guide before you start.
Does speaches need a GPU?
The project doesn't state hardware needs. AI models generally run much faster with a GPU.
Is speaches still maintained?
Yes. It was last updated 1d ago and has 110 open issues on GitHub.
What are alternatives to speaches?
Similar free, open-source tools include faster-whisper, go-openai, VoiceStudio, whisper.cpp.