#tts

Open-Source TTS Model Showdown 2026: Hands-On Testing of Qwen3-TTS, Chatterbox, Fish Speech, CosyVoice & IndexTTS2

A hands-on comparison of five open-source TTS models, with a focus on commercial license pitfalls in Fish Speech and IndexTTS2 — covering features, licenses, and working code all in one place.

I Tested Zero-Shot Voice Cloning with Emotion Control in OpenVoice — 8 Styles from a 14-Second Reference

OpenVoice V1 is a zero-shot voice cloning library that extracts a speaker's tone color from as little as 14 seconds of reference audio, then synthesizes speech in 8 emotional styles: `whispering`, `shouting`, `excited`, `cheerful`, `terrified`, `angry`, `sad`, and `friendly`. This post covers the code I actually ran, what I heard, and the gotchas I hit along the way.