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SoTA open-source TTS

⭐ Very popular: 26k stars, gaining about 83 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2025 1 year old
delivery library
language Python
license MIT

momentum

total stars 26k
stars added last week +83
HN peak 670 pts 1y 2mo ago
weekly downloads 50k /wk · PyPI
used by 235 repos & packages
commits / week 0 accelerating
issues closed 12% closed same-day, median
contributors 16
release cadence n/a
last activity 25d ago

durability

backing VC-backed Resemble AI
openness permissive
bus factor 5 distributed
top-author share 13% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 1k/mo (+11%/mo) · + 15k total since PR#16

why it's a big deal

  • Democratizes access to high-quality, production-grade TTS without vendor lock-in.
  • Enables creative and interactive use cases with unique emotion control.
  • Benchmarked against closed-source leaders and consistently preferred in evaluations.

under the hood

  • 0.5B Llama-based model trained on 0.5m hours of curated data; MIT-licensed.
  • Alignment-informed inference for stability, sub-200ms latency, and voice conversion scripts.
  • Built-in imperceptible watermarking (PerTh) ensures responsible AI audio generation.

our take from PR#16, 2025-09-03

star history

PR#16 · 11k26k now Apr 2025Aug 2026
  1. PR#16 11k 2025-09-03
  2. now 26k + 15k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.

-51 understory score output 12 · clout 63
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#16 2025-09-03 on the radar

    Open Source TTS with Emotion Control

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