jamiepine/voicebox

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Voicebox is a free, open-source, local-first AI voice studio desktop app that combines voice cloning, text-to-speech across 7 engines, and system-wide voice dictation. It runs entirely on your own hardware and can give MCP-aware AI agents a voice of your choosing.

Use cases

• clone a voice from a few seconds of audio
• generate speech locally instead of paying for ElevenLabs
• dictate into any app with a global hotkey instead of WisprFlow
• give my AI agent a custom voice via MCP
• generate multilingual TTS in 23 languages
• create multi-voice audio projects and stories
• transcribe and archive voice recordings locally

When to choose

• you want free, private, fully local voice cloning and TTS with no account or subscription
• you need both speech output (TTS) and input (dictation) in one desktop app
• you want to give MCP-aware AI agents a voice you own
• you have a GPU (CUDA or Apple Silicon) and want offline speech generation

When to avoid

• you need a managed cloud API with guaranteed uptime and no local hardware
• you need a prebuilt Linux binary — Linux currently requires building from source
• you only need lightweight command-line TTS scripting rather than a GUI studio
• you require commercial licensing guarantees for cloned celebrity-style voices

Facets

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tts speech-recognition llm-inference mcp audio-processing gui speech-processing artificial-intelligence desktop-applications self-hosted windows cross-platform voice-cloning dictation local-first tauri elevenlabs-alternative wisprflow-alternative qwen3-tts whisper voice-studio mcp-server audio macos linux desktop gpu

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