Project Title

Zonos — High-Quality Multilingual Text-to-Speech Model

Overview

Zonos-v0.1 is a state-of-the-art open-weight text-to-speech model trained on over 200k hours of diverse multilingual speech. It delivers expressiveness and quality comparable to or surpassing top TTS providers. Zonos enables highly natural speech generation from text prompts and can accurately perform speech cloning with just a few seconds of reference audio.

Key Features

Zero-shot TTS with voice cloning
Audio prefix inputs for richer speaker matching
Multilingual support (English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German)
Fine-grained control over audio quality and emotions
Fast real-time factor of ~2x on RTX 4090
Gradio WebUI for easy speech generation
Simple installation and deployment using Docker

Use Cases

Content creators needing high-quality TTS for videos or podcasts
Language learners wanting to hear text in different languages
Developers integrating TTS into applications for accessibility
Researchers exploring advanced TTS and voice cloning techniques

Advantages

Superior expressiveness and quality compared to top TTS providers
Multilingual support with fine control over audio characteristics
Fast generation speeds and easy-to-use Gradio interface
Simple installation and deployment流程

Limitations / Considerations

System requirements may limit accessibility for some users
May require significant computational resources for optimal performance
License information is currently unknown, which could affect usage rights

Tacotron 2: An open-source text-to-speech synthesis project by NVIDIA, known for its high-quality audio output but without the multilingual support of Zonos.
WaveNet: A deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms, offering a different approach to TTS compared to Zonos' text-based focus.
LJSpeech: A dataset for training TTS models, which can be used in conjunction with Zonos to train on additional languages or accents.

Basic Information

GitHub: https://github.com/Zyphra/Zonos
Stars: 7,102
License: Unknown
Last Commit: 2025-11-15

📊 Project Information

Project Name: Zonos
GitHub URL: https://github.com/Zyphra/Zonos
Programming Language: Python
⭐ Stars: 7,102
🍴 Forks: 814
📅 Created: 2025-02-07
🔄 Last Updated: 2025-11-15

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