Local TTS model

EmotiVoice

Multi-voice TTS with granular emotion control. Choose from 2000+ built-in voices and specify emotions like happy, sad, angry, or surprised per sentence.

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Quality
8.5/10
Speed
7.5/10
Size
1.5GB
Languages
2+

Quick answer

EmotiVoice is a local speech model from NetEase Youdao. It is best suited for emotion, multilingual, controllable workflows. Check the license before commercial use.

Model details

Hardware

gpucpu

Formats

pytorch

Voices

2000+ built-in voices

Latency

low

License

Apache 2.0

Release

2023-11

Install command

pip install emotivoice

Features

emotionmultilingualcontrollable

Languages: en, zh

Context: Emotion: happy, sad, angry, surprised

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