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OverFlow (Coqui LJ Speech) is an open-weights text-to-speech model from Coqui TTS / Eren Gölge @erogol, released December 2022. Licence: apache 2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Exact registry entry tts_models/en/ljspeech/overflow. Default vocoder vocoder_models/en/ljspeech/hifigan_v2. Model archive responded HTTP 200 to a HEAD request on 2026-09-29. CPU command documented by maintained Coqui TTS; phoneme models may require the espeak-ng system package. Memory is an estimated 4GB runtime budget, not measured usage. No original-paper MOS transferred to this separately trained checkpoint.

Model information sources

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$ how it compares

Scored text-to-speech models released closest to OverFlow (Coqui LJ Speech), out of 148 with a score.

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85MMS TTS Amharic Meta50±16local~0.2GB2023-05
96Piper (en_US lessac medium) Open Home Foundation (Piper)47±5local~0.1GB2023-06
137Piper (tr_TR dfki medium) Open Home Foundation (Piper)26±4local~0.1GB2023-06
139Bark Suno25±3local~4.5GB2023-04
140SpeechT5 TTS Microsoft23±3local~0.7GB2023-02

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$ where to run it

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~4 GB · from github.com/idiap
    uv run --python 3.11 --with 'coqui-tts[languages]' --with torch --with torchaudio --with torchcodec tts --model_name tts_models/en/ljspeech/overflow --text "Hello world." --out_path speech.wav --device cpu

Weights and documentation: github.com/idiap ↗

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