The best Voicebox alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Voicebox, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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VoiceboxOpen-source desktop app to clone voices, generate speech, and dictate text locally.
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Meetily
Open source · MIT · ★ 32.4k
Free, open-source meeting notes app for macOS and Windows that transcribes and summarizes locally.
Best for: People who want meeting notes without sending recordings to a cloud service; Professionals handling sensitive conversations who need control over where data is stored
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OpenWhispr
Open source · MIT · ★ 10.5k
Desktop app that turns your speech into text at the cursor, with local or cloud models.
Best for: People who want dictation in any app without sending audio to a cloud service; Users who want to bring their own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Groq API keys
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GPT-SoVITS
Open source · MIT · ★ 64.6k
Open-source tool that clones a voice from about a minute of audio and speaks typed text in it.
Best for: Hobbyists who want to experiment with cloning a voice they have permission to use; Creators who need narration in a consistent synthetic voice
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Voicebox. We don't take payment for placement.