Bert-VITS2

by fishaudio

VITS2 + BERT prosody TTS — companion to Whisper.

TL;DR

VITS2 + BERT prosody TTS — companion to Whisper.

Best for mandarin/Japanese voice agents. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Bert-VITS2 reference. AGPL-3.0.

Best for: Mandarin/Japanese voice agents.
Watch out for: TTS only.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/fishaudio/Bert-VITS2

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported2
HIPAA eligibleNo

Bert-VITS2 vs Whipscribe

FeatureBert-VITS2Whipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages299
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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