MetaVoice 1B

by MetaVoice

Open zero-shot voice cloning TTS.

TL;DR

Open zero-shot voice cloning TTS.

Best for cloning voices from short samples for downstream voice-agent demos. Pricing: free.

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

What it is

The MetaVoice 1B open-weights TTS. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Cloning voices from short samples for downstream voice-agent demos.
Watch out for: MIT but model weights are licensed Apache-2.0 with ethics restrictions.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/metavoiceio/metavoice-src

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

MetaVoice 1B vs Whipscribe

FeatureMetaVoice 1BWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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