kokoro-web
Text to Speech
v0.1.3
Kokoro Web is a free, open-source AI text-to-speech tool that runs in the browser or self-hosted via Docker.1y agoMITDockerDemoEasy
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Not listed as OpenAI Text-to-Speech API alternatives, but they cover the same ground and are worth a look.
openai-edge-ttsA self-hosted, open-source text-to-speech API server that mimics OpenAI's /v1/audio/speech endpoint and synthesizes audio for free via Microsoft Edge's TTS voices.
chatterbox-tts-apiChatterbox TTS API is a self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible TTS server with voice cloning and 22-language support. Runs via Docker or Python, integrates with Open WebUI.
Kokoro FastAPIA self-hosted, open-source FastAPI wrapper for the Kokoro-82M speech model with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, multi-speaker mixing, SSML, timestamps and a web player.
OmniVoice-StudioThis self-hosted, open-source ElevenLabs alternative clones and designs voices, dubs video and builds audiobooks in 646 languages, fully local on desktop or Docker.
unspeechunSpeech is a self-hosted, open-source TTS proxy with an OpenAI-compatible API for multiple cloud providers like ElevenLabs, Azure, and Deepgram.
ebook2audiobook---LegacySelf-hosted, open-source converter that turns ebooks and PDFs into audiobooks using multiple TTS engines, voice cloning, OCR and 1158 languages.
About these OpenAI Text-to-Speech API alternatives
1 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to OpenAI Text-to-Speech API are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- kokoro-web (760 GitHub stars, MIT license, written in Typescript)
- Docker
- 1 of the top 1 ship an official Docker image
- Easiest to set up
- kokoro-web
- Recently updated
- kokoro-web v0.1.3 on 2025-03-16
OpenAI Text-to-Speech API alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kokoro-web | MIT | Typescript | 760 | Yes | Easy | v0.1.3 | 47 |