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VoiceStudio
by Palash DebnathAppMake video or audio
Clones voices, dubs videos and reads text aloud on your own computer
About VoiceStudio
VoiceStudio is a desktop app for voice work on your own computer: clone or design a voice, dub a video into another language, dictate, transcribe, and narrate stories or audiobooks.
For Video creatorsNarrators and audiobook makersPeople who dictate
Made by Palash Debnath
An open-source project created by developer Palash Debnath, published on GitHub and at voicestudio.sh.
- Stars
- ★ 96k
- License
- AGPL-3.0-only
- Cost
- Free
- Platforms
- Mac · Win · Linux
- Runs
- Local
Overview
VoiceStudio is a desktop app for voice work that runs on your own device. You can clone a voice from a clean recording, describe a new voice in words, dub a video into another language while keeping its original timing, dictate, transcribe, and narrate stories or audiobooks. It asks before it downloads the voice models it needs, and it also works without a graphics card, only slower. It suits creators, narrators and anyone who wants voice tools without a cloud subscription.
It puts voice cloning, dubbing and transcription in one free app that runs locally, with dozens of speech engines to choose from.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- In Voice cloning, choose the demo voice and generate: "Welcome to the channel. Today we look at three quick recipes."First try
- In Voice design, describe a calm, low voice for a bedtime story and generate a sample.
- Dub [your video] from English into Spanish, keeping the timing of the original.
- Transcribe [an interview recording] and export the text.
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
Features
From the creator's documentation.
| Feature | What it does | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Voice cloning | Speech in a voice taken from a clean reference recording | Your computer |
| Voice design | A new voice generated from a description in words | Your computer |
| Video dubbing | Re-voices a video in another language and fits the new speech to the original timing | Your computer |
| Dictation and transcription | Speak to type with a floating dictation box, and turn recordings into text on your device | Your computer |
| Narration | Read stories and audiobooks aloud, with batch jobs queued up | Your computer |
| Model downloads | The engines and voice models you choose, downloaded after you agree | Internet |
Good to know
Make a voice-over, a dubbed video or a transcript without sending audio to a cloud service. VoiceStudio runs the speech models on your own computer and keeps cloning, dubbing, dictation and narration in one app.
Limits
- Clone a voice only with its owner's permission. The project's license notice says the default model's weights are non-commercial (CC-BY-NC), so check each model's licence before using audio commercially.
- Intel Macs cannot run the local engine; there the app only connects to a backend on another machine. The phone apps are previews.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: VoiceStudio), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. VoiceStudio: README and install guides · VoiceStudio license notice
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