Piper

by Rhasspy

Fast neural TTS for Home Assistant — pairs with Whisper.

TL;DR

Fast neural TTS for Home Assistant — pairs with Whisper.

Best for on-device TTS to read back transcripts or LLM replies. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
—
Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi

What it is

A blazing-fast neural TTS by Rhasspy. MIT.

Best for: On-device TTS to read back transcripts or LLM replies.
Watch out for: TTS only.

Install / use

pip install piper-tts

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported40
HIPAA eligibleNo

Piper vs Whipscribe

FeaturePiperWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages4099
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry PiWeb, API, MCP

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