# Plachtaa/VALL-E-X

An open source implementation of Microsoft's VALL-E X zero-shot TTS model. Demo is available in https://plachtaa.github.io/vallex/

Repository: https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vall-e-x
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: emotional-speech, gpt, text-to-speech, voice-clone, transformer-architecture, tts, vall-e
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-02-11T15:36:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 80
- inputs: {"age_days": 1131, "days_push": 934, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7931, forks 781 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:09.911569+00:00)

## What it is
An open-source Python implementation of Microsoft's VALL-E X zero-shot text-to-speech model, with a community-trained pretrained checkpoint. It supports multilingual speech synthesis, voice cloning from short prompts, and emotional speech generation.

## Use cases
- clone a voice from a short audio sample
- generate speech from text in English, Chinese, or Japanese
- synthesize emotional speech
- run zero-shot text-to-speech locally on GPU
- create multilingual voiceovers

## When to choose
- you need zero-shot TTS with voice cloning from a few seconds of audio
- you want a free, self-hosted alternative to commercial TTS APIs
- you need multilingual synthesis with cross-lingual voice transfer

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade, actively maintained TTS with support
- you have no GPU, since inference requires CUDA
- you need languages beyond English, Chinese, and Japanese

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: tts, speech-recognition, deep-learning, machine-learning
- domain: speech-processing, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: voice-cloning, zero-shot-tts, text-to-speech, emotional-speech, transformer, multilingual, pretrained-model, audio, gpu

## Member repositories
- Plachtaa/VALL-E-X (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:09.911569+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:33:15.106136+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Plachtaa/VALL-E-X (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:09.911569+00:00, sha a42bcb57adf3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.