Best text-to-speech models to run locally on a 256GB PC without a graphics card
A leaderboard of the best text-to-speech models you can run locally on a computer with 256GB of RAM and no graphics card. LongCat-AudioDiT-3.5B is #1 right now, followed by LongCat-AudioDiT-1B and OmniVoice. Models are ranked by one score that combines 101 published benchmarks. Each model shows the download that fits and the command to run it.
78 models · scores combine 101 benchmarks · updated how it works · find a leaderboard · benchmark your machine
Models for 256GB RAM · no GPU → ~202GB for models (CPU, slow) · local only · reset
+ more
$ terminal
↗ share
detecting your OS…
Score vs memory to run
x
show
● open weights ◆ API only ─┘ best score for the memory · x: GB of RAM / VRAM for the smallest download (log)
| # | model | score↓ | where↓ | speed↓ | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 |  LongCat-AudioDiT-3.5B · fp32 weights (official LongCat-AudioDiT repo, transformers>=5.3) | 66±2 | local (slow) |   | |
| 17 | LongCat-AudioDiT-1B · fp32 weights (official LongCat-AudioDiT repo, transformers>=5.3) | 66±4† | local (slow) | | |
| 18 |  OmniVoice · fp32 | 66±2 | local (slow) | | |
| 25 |  Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B Base · bf16 (qwen-tts) | 65±1 | local (slow) |  +3 | |
| 27 |  VoxCPM2 · bf16 (voxcpm) | 64±1 | local (slow) | | |
| 28 |  Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512 · fp32 (CosyVoice repo) | 64±1 | local (slow) | | |
| 29 |  Wayu-Paxa-TTS-Edge · fp32 (wayu-tts package) | 64±4† | local (slow) | | |
| 32 |  IndexTTS-2 · fp32 (index-tts repo) | 63±1 | local (slow) | +2 | |
| 33 |  MOSS-TTS v1.5 (8B) · fp32 (transformers 5) | 63±2 | local (slow) | | |
| 37 |  Fish Audio S2 Pro · bf16 (fish-speech official repo CLI) | 63±1 | local (slow) | +3 | |
| 39 | IndexTTS (v1) · fp32 on CPU (index-tts repo CLI `indextts`) | 62±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 40 |  F5-TTS v1 Base · fp32 | 62±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 42 | ZipVoice · fp32 (ZipVoice repo) | 62±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 44 | Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 0.6B Base · bf16 (qwen-tts) | 62±2 | local (slow) | | |
| 49 | CosyVoice2-0.5B · fp32 (CosyVoice repo) | 61±1 | local (slow) | +1 | |
| 50 | E2 TTS Base (F5-TTS reproduction) · fp32 | 60±2 | local (slow) | | |
| 60 | F5-TTS Base (v0) · fp32 | 57±2 | local (slow) | | |
| 63 |  ZONOS2 8B · q8_0 (zonos2.cpp) | 57±2† | local (slow) | | |
| 64 |  Supertonic 3 · onnx-fp32 (supertonic Python SDK 1.3.x) | 55±10* | local (slow) | | |
| 68 | CosyVoice-300M · fp32 (CosyVoice repo) | 54±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 69 |  Chatterbox Multilingual V3 · fp32 (chatterbox) | 54±10* | local (slow) | | |
| 70 |  VibeVoice 1.5B · bf16 (transformers >=5.17.0) | 53±6 | local (slow) | | |
| 73 |  Kokoro 82M v1.0 · fp32 (kokoro package 0.9.4) | 52±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 74 |  LEMAS-TTS (w/ prosody, multilingual_prosody) · official checkpoint (LEMAS-TTS repo, F5-TTS-based) | 52±6*† | local (slow) | | |
| 76 |  Spark-TTS 0.5B · fp32 (Spark-TTS repo CLI) | 52±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 79 |  OpenVoice V1 · fp32 (myshell-ai/OpenVoice) | 51±14* | local (slow) | | |
| 84 | LEMAS-TTS (w/o prosody, multilingual_grl) · official checkpoint (LEMAS-TTS repo, F5-TTS-based) | 50±6*† | local (slow) | | |
| 85 |  MMS TTS Amharic · fp32 (transformers VitsModel) | 50±16* | local (slow) | | |
| 86 | Chatterbox · fp32 (chatterbox-tts 0.1.7) | 50±5 | local (slow) | | |
| 87 |  Parler-TTS Mini v0.1 · fp32 | 49±14* | local (slow) | | |
| 89 |  SILMA TTS v1 · fp32 checkpoint (silma-tts 1.0.5) | 48±10* | local (slow) | | |
| 92 |  Orpheus TTS 3B 0.1 (finetune-prod) · gguf Q4_K_M (orpheus-cpp 0.0.3) | 47±5 | local (slow) | | |
| 96 |  Piper (en_US lessac medium) · onnx-fp32 (piper-tts 1.8.0) | 47±5* | local (slow) | | |
| 97 |  Vevo (Amphion) · fp32 (Amphion repo) | 46±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 102 | GPT-SoVITS v2 · fp32 (repo api_v2.py) | 44±4 | local (slow) | | |
| 103 | MeloTTS English · fp32 (MeloTTS repo CLI) | 44±5 | local (slow) | | |
| 104 | Parler-TTS Mini v1 · fp32 (parler-tts) | 44±6* | local (slow) | | |
| 106 | Nabra-82M v0.1 · fp32 (Kokoro KModel, Oddadmix/kokoro fork) | 42±10* | local (slow) | | |
| 107 | OpenAudio S1 Mini · bf16 (fish-speech official repo CLI) | 41±5 | local (slow) | | |
| 108 | Fish Speech 1.5 · bf16 (fish-speech repo) | 41±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 109 | EMA Lightning · fp32 (PyTorch) | 40±3* | local (slow) | | |
| 113 |  Magpie TTS Multilingual 357M · f16-gguf (NVIDIA NeMo-Speech.cpp) | 39±6* | local (slow) | | |
| 114 | Zonos v0.1 · bf16 | 39±4 | local (slow) | | |
| 115 |  Maya1 · bf16 (transformers + snac) | 38±6* | local (slow) | | |
| 121 | Amphion VALL-E v2 recipe (MLS) · fp32 (Amphion repo) | 36±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 122 |  NeuTTS Air · bf16 (neutts 1.4.1) | 36±10* | local (slow) | | |
| 126 |  VoiceCraft 830M (giga830M) · fp32 (VoiceCraft repo) | 32±4† | local (slow) | | |
| 127 |  VALL-E X (Plachtaa open implementation) · fp32 (Plachtaa/VALL-E-X repo) | 31±4 | local (slow) | | |
| 128 |  OuteTTS 0.2 500M · fp32 (outetts 0.3.3) | 31±6* | local (slow) | | |
| 130 |  StyleTTS 2 (LibriTTS) · fp32 (styletts2 PyPI package 0.1.6) | 30±2 | local (slow) | +2 | |
| 131 |  XTTS v2 · fp32 (coqui-tts 0.27.5) | 30±2 | local (slow) | +7 | |
| 132 | Tortoise TTS v2 · fp32 (coqui-tts 0.27.5) | 29±2 | local (slow) | +2 | |
| 133 | Parler-TTS Large v1 · fp32 | 29±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 137 | Piper (tr_TR dfki medium) · onnx-fp32 (piper-tts) | 26±4* | local (slow) | | |
| 138 | OpenVoice V2 · fp32 (myshell-ai/OpenVoice) | 26±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 139 |  Bark · fp32 | 25±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 140 | SpeechT5 TTS · fp32 (transformers) | 23±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 143 | YourTTS · fp32 (coqui-tts) | 18±3 | local (slow) | | |
| 144 | MMS TTS Turkish · fp32 (transformers VitsModel) | 18±4* | local (slow) | | |
| 147 | Glow-TTS Common Voice (Turkish) · fp32 · CPU | 11±4* | local (slow) | | |
| — | Chatterbox Turbo · fp32 (chatterbox-tts 0.1.7) | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — |  Dia 1.6B (0626) · fp32 (nari-labs/dia repo) | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | FastPitch (Coqui LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — |  FastSpeech 2 + HiFi-GAN (SpeechBrain LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | Glow-TTS (Coqui LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | Glow-TTS Mai (Ukrainian) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — |  Kitten TTS Mini 0.8 · onnx (kittenml 0.9.3) | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | KittenTTS 2 · ternary-packed LM (kittenml 0.9.3) | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | LightSpeech + Parallel WaveGAN · fp32 · CPU (microsoft/NeuralSpeech LightSpeech repo, LJSpeech test set) | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | Neural HMM TTS (Coqui LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | OverFlow (Coqui LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — |  Pocket TTS (English) · fp32 (pocket-tts 3.3.0) | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | SpeedySpeech (Coqui LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | Tacotron 2 DDC (Coqui LJ Speech) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | VITS Common Voice (Portuguese) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | VITS CSS10 (French) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | VITS CSS10 (Spanish) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) | ||
| — | VITS Thorsten (German) · fp32 · CPU | no reviewed results | local (slow) |
+ 109 more don't fit your machine or budget · show them
187 of 187 catalogue models listed here · sources and licences
* new or thinly tested: ranked on too few benchmark results · † only the maker’s own numbers so far · ~RAM is estimated; full context may need more memory