IMS Toucan

by Universität Stuttgart IMS

Multilingual TTS toolkit from Stuttgart IMS.

TL;DR

Multilingual TTS toolkit from Stuttgart IMS.

Best for researchers exploring 100+ language TTS. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

A multilingual TTS toolkit covering many low-resource languages. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Researchers exploring 100+ language TTS.
Watch out for: TTS only; research-grade.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported100
HIPAA eligibleNo

IMS Toucan vs Whipscribe

FeatureIMS ToucanWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages10099
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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