VoiceStudio
A free, fully local, open-source alternative to ElevenLabs for voice cloning, video dubbing, transcription, and audiobook creation.
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Description
Cloning a voice, dubbing a video into another language, or turning a manuscript into an audiobook usually means sending your voice and your content to a cloud service like ElevenLabs — along with a monthly bill and a privacy trade-off. VoiceStudio does the same jobs entirely on your own computer: no account, no API key, no audio ever leaving your machine.
VoiceStudio is a free, open-source, fully local alternative to ElevenLabs that bundles 16 text-to-speech engines and 11 speech-recognition engines (including CosyVoice, GPT-SoVITS, WhisperX, and Faster-Whisper) behind one desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a local REST API and web interface. It handles zero-shot voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription, and audiobook creation across 646 languages, along with vocal isolation and speaker diarization for cleaning up and separating multi-speaker audio. It's built with Rust (Tauri) and a Python FastAPI backend, needs at least 8GB RAM and 10GB storage, and runs faster with a GPU but doesn't require one.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you're comfortable running things locally and want ElevenLabs-level voice cloning and dubbing without a subscription or sending your voice to someone else's server, VoiceStudio is a genuinely capable free alternative — the catch is you're managing the infrastructure yourself.
With over 11,700 GitHub stars, VoiceStudio has real community traction, and its language coverage (646 vs ElevenLabs' roughly 32) and lack of per-character billing or usage caps are meaningful advantages for heavy users. The trade-off is that ElevenLabs' cloud service requires zero setup and scales without you managing GPU drivers or model downloads, while VoiceStudio asks you to run and maintain a local stack — worth it if you value privacy and cost control, less so if you just need occasional voiceovers and don't want to think about hardware.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit, application sous licence AGPL-3.0, modèles embarqués sous Apache-2.0. Aucun abonnement ni facturation au caractère.
Pros
100% local, aucune donnée vocale envoyée dans le cloud
646 langues supportées, contre environ 32 pour ElevenLabs
16 moteurs TTS + 11 moteurs ASR embarqués au choix
Pas de facturation au caractère ni de plafond d'usage
Cons
Demande de gérer soi-même l'infrastructure (RAM, stockage, GPU optionnel)
Pas de service cloud clé-en-main comme ElevenLabs
Installation et mises à jour à la charge de l'utilisateur
Courbe d'apprentissage plus élevée qu'un simple SaaS