F5-TTS

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Flow-matching TTS — open and fast.

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TL;DR

Best for high-quality multilingual TTS pairing with Whisper. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
MIT
Stars
★ 15.1k
Last push
2026-07-23
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

F5-TTS paper reference. CC-BY-NC-4.0 — non-commercial.

Best for: High-quality multilingual TTS pairing with Whisper.
Watch out for: Compute-heavy; English/Chinese.

Install / use

pip install f5-tts

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported4
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

F5-TTS vs Whipscribe

FeatureF5-TTSWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfree$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages499
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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