From: OHF-Voice <github.com/OHF-Voice>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

Piper

Release: v1.8.0 (2026-09-04)Commit: 639388bLicense: GPL-3.0

Fast local text-to-speech that runs on a Raspberry Pi.

speechv1.8.0releasePiperC++GPL-3.0

FactsLicenseGPL-3.0LanguageC++KindspeechRelease2026-09-04PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinks to the projectcopyleft

$ pip install piper-tts

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Fast local text-to-speech that runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Kind: speech
License: GPL-3.0
Language: C++
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release: v1.8.0 (2026-09-04)
Repository: OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install piper-tts

$ pip install piper-tts

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-14. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Run a catalog model

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (126)

Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air chatterbox-4bit chatterbox-8bit chatterbox-fp16 chatterbox-GGUF chatterbox-multilingual-v3 chatterbox-ONNX chatterbox-turbo chatterbox-turbo-4bit chatterbox-turbo-8bit chatterbox-turbo-fp16 chatterbox-turbo-GGUF CosyVoice2-0.5B csm-1b csm-1b-8bit Dia-1.6B Dia-1.6B Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512 kitten-tts-micro-0.8 kitten-tts-mini-0.8 kitten-tts-nano-0.1 kitten-tts-nano-0.1-ONNX kitten-tts-nano-0.8-fp32 Ming-3.0-TTS Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B-8bit Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B-bf16 Ming-3.0-tts-tiny Ming-3.0-tts-tiny-4bit Ming-3.0-tts-tiny-8bit MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer-v1.5 MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer-v1.5-4bit MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer-v1.5-8bit MOSS-TTS-Nano-100M moss-va-sft3-burst-stop-dpo-lora moss-va-sft3-dpo-lora moss-va-sft3-dpo-lora-p2 moss-va-sft3-quality-dpo-lora moss-va-sft3-quality-speed-dpo-lora moss-va-sft3-rate-lora phonon-31m-en phonon-31m-en-ONNX pocket-tts Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base-4bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base-8bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base-bf16 Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice-4bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice-6bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice-8bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice-bf16 Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-4bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-6bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-8bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-bf16 Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice-4bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice-6bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice-bf16 Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign-4bit Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign-6bit

and 66 more.

License

License: GPL-3.0
Class: Copyleft (GPL)

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: OHF-Voice <github.com/OHF-Voice>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: PiperRelease: v1.8.0 (2026-09-04)Commit: 639388bLicense: GPL-3.0

Repository: OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl
Pinned release: v1.8.0, 2026-09-04
Release commit: 639388b6317fc4731e91d53da42aea68fd4166ff
Default branch: main 6565650f47648de2fb053f622544e46e32c9d0e7
Fetched: 2026-11-14
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

126 catalog models. See the list