A Free, Local ElevenLabs Alternative
VoiceStudio is a free, open-source desktop app that does the work of a cloud voice platform on your own machine. Give it a few seconds of clean audio and it reads anything back in that voice — with no cloud, no API keys and no subscription.
Everything, on Your Machine
- Voice cloning and voice design from seconds of clean audio
- Audiobooks from any text
- Dictation with a floating mic that types what you say
- Transcription with labels for multiple speakers
- Video dubbing into 646 languages
Under the hood it bundles 16 text-to-speech engines and 11 speech-recognition engines. Coverage and quality vary by engine, so it's worth trying a few for your language and use case.
100% Local, Even on a Plain CPU
Once the models have downloaded, VoiceStudio runs fully offline, so your audio never leaves your machine. It works on an ordinary CPU or an older laptop — just more slowly — and the guide puts it against cloud voice subscriptions of $5 to $330 a month. Download the desktop app, or clone the repo and run it with Docker.
Clone Only Voices You Have the Right To
Use it on your own voice, or on a voice whose owner has given explicit consent. Never use it to impersonate someone.
What's in the Guide
Everything VoiceStudio does, what runs under the hood, what to expect on modest hardware, both ways to install it, and a direct link to the repo.
The full field guide is in the PDF.
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