30-45 minutesIntermediate

How to Clone Voices Locally

Create AI voice clones on your hardware

Voice cloning lets you replicate any voice from a short audio sample. Run it locally for privacy and unlimited usage. This guide covers the best open-source tools.

Hardware Requirements

GPU VRAMMin: 6GBRec: 12GBMore VRAM enables faster synthesis

System RAMMin: 16GBRec: 32GB

StorageMin: 20GB freeRec: 50GB SSD

Step-by-Step Guide

1Choose Your Tool

XTTS is the best balance of quality and ease of use.

Voice cloning options:
• XTTS - Best quality, multilingual
• RVC - Great for singing voices
• OpenVoice - Fast and simple
• Coqui TTS - Versatile toolkit

2Install XTTS

Set up the Coqui XTTS environment.

pip install TTS

# Or use the web UI:
git clone https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
cd TTS
pip install -e .

3Clone a Voice

Provide a reference audio sample (5-30 seconds works best).

from TTS.api import TTS

tts = TTS("tts_models/multilingual/multi-dataset/xtts_v2")

tts.tts_to_file(
    text="Hello, this is my cloned voice!",
    speaker_wav="reference_audio.wav",
    language="en",
    file_path="output.wav"
)

💡 Use clean audio without background noise for best results.