NVIDIA WaveGlow

by NVIDIA

Flow-based vocoder companion to Tacotron2.

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TL;DR

Best for reference flow-based vocoder. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
BSD-3-Clause
Stars
★ 2.3k
Last push
2023-10-19
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

The WaveGlow vocoder reference. BSD-3-Clause.

Best for: Reference flow-based vocoder.
Watch out for: Superseded by HiFi-GAN / BigVGAN.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/waveglow

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

Links

GitHub repo ↗

NVIDIA WaveGlow vs Whipscribe

FeatureNVIDIA WaveGlowWhipscribe
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
Languages199
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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