Piper TTS
A fast, CPU-only neural TTS engine from Rhasspy that runs entirely offline, even on a Raspberry Pi.
Daangeessii kitaaba keessan keessaa tag SSML akka itti fayyadamtan:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
Tag'oota mo'ellaa filatamee beekuu - cuqaasi akka tokkotti galchiin gara teekstaatti yoo ta'e:
Mo'ellaan kun kitaaba salphaa baraa, kan akka taggaa inniin linjii hin beekkamne. Akka taggaa-based emooshiniitti, mo'ellaa akka Orpheus ykn Bark.
Haalli fuula
-12
+12
0.5x
2.0x
Birrii fi Piper, VITS, MeloTTS
Oduu kee kan uumame yooka'u yooka'u. Suuraa moolaa, galchi kitaaba, fi bu'u Jijjiira.
Jijjiiramni faallaa'e
Audion itti fufuu
Tarree hin-ga'iin: fayyadama namaatiif. Liiziinii Kominikeeshinii irraa $5/mo
Akkaataawwan hin qabne
Get 200K characters every month — $5/mo
ykn 100K pack tokko tokkoo $5
Akka kana dhageetti
Kloonii sagalee tokkoo
Fuulaa Piper
Piper was built by the Rhasspy project to bring neural text-to-speech to edge devices that have no GPU. It pairs a VITS-style synthesizer with the Larynx pipeline and runs as a compact ~15M-parameter ONNX model directly on CPU, so synthesis happens locally with no cloud round-trip. Its strength is breadth and footprint: over 100 voices spanning 35+ languages at real-time speed on hardware as modest as a Pi 4. That makes it the practical default for home automation, accessibility readers, and offline kiosks where latency, privacy, and zero hosting cost matter more than studio polish.
Fakkeenyaaf: Quick previews, accessibility, and embedded applications
Fuulaa Piper DhaamsaAkkasumas
- Deebi'aa
- Rhasspy
- Lizenz
- MIT (engine); voice licenses vary
- Daandiin
- free
- Jijjiiramni
- fast
- Dhaabbilee
- Haata'u
- Afaan Oromoo
- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Georgian, Kazakh, Nepali, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, CA, CY, FA, Latvian, Slovenian, LB, Basque, Indonesian, Kurdish, Malayalam, Albanian, Telugu, Urdu
- Akkasumas
- 2000
Piper Dhaamsa
Aegis (Urdu)
Urdu
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Aivars (Latvian)
Latvian
Birrii
Male
Alan (UK)
English
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Alba (UK)
English
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Amir (Persian)
fa
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Amy (US)
English
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Anna (Hungarian)
Hungarian
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Antton (Basque)
Basque
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Artur (Slovenian)
Slovenian
Birrii
Male
Berfin (Kurdish)
Kurdish
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
DFKI (Turkish)
Turkish
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Darkman (Polish)
Polish
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Denis (Russian)
Russian
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Dutch (MLS)
Dutch
Birrii
Neutral
Edon (Albanian)
Albanian
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Faber (Portuguese)
Portuguese
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Fasih (Urdu)
Urdu
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Google (Nepali)
Nepali
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Gor (Armenian)
hy
Birrii
Male
Gwryw (Welsh)
cy
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Harri (Finnish)
Finnish
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Huayan (Chinese)
Chinese
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Issai (Kazakh)
Kazakh
Birrii
Neutral
Jenny (UK)
English
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Jirka (Czech)
Czech
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Joe (US)
English
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Kareem (Arabic)
Arabic
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Lada (Ukrainian)
Ukrainian
Birrii
Female
Lanfrica (Swahili)
Swahili
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Lessac (US)
English
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Lili (Slovak)
Slovak
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Maider (Basque)
Basque
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Marylux (Luxembourgish)
lb
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Mihai (Romanian)
Romanian
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
NST (Swedish)
Swedish
Birrii
Neutral
Natia (Georgian)
Georgian
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
News (Indonesian)
Indonesian
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Ona (Catalan)
ca
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Rapunzelina (Greek)
Greek
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Riccardo (Italian)
Italian
Birrii
Male
Ryan (US)
English
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Salka (Icelandic)
Icelandic
Birrii
Female
Serbian Institute
Serbian
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Sharvard (Spanish)
Spanish
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Siwis (French)
French
Birrii
Female
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Tale (Danish)
Danish
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Tale (Norwegian)
Norwegian
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Thorsten (German)
German
Birrii
Male
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
VIVOS (Vietnamese)
Vietnamese
Birrii
Neutral
Akka fayyadama ofiifi hin-kompaayiin
Piper TTS — FAQ
No. Piper is CPU-only by design and uses 0 VRAM — it runs offline on embedded hardware like a Raspberry Pi 4 in real time, which is exactly what it was built for.
Only some voices. The Piper engine is MIT licensed, but each voice carries the license of the recordings it was trained on, and most Piper voices were trained on or fine-tuned from recordings licensed for non-commercial use. Those voices are marked "Personal and non-commercial use only" below and in the voice picker. On TTS.ai, audio from the other Piper voices is for personal use on the free tier and can be used commercially on any paid plan.
Piper offers 100+ voices across 35+ languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Ukrainian and many more. It supports SSML and handles up to 2,000 characters per request.