Piper
Fast local neural text-to-speech; voices are separate downloads, each with its own license.
Files, images and media PyPI GPL-3.0-or-later Text to speech
How Piper is used
AgentGid editors added Piper to the catalog as a well-known library for text to speech. In our scan it appears in 19 public GitHub projects, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents, so there is too little project data to rank it against the tools people use most. Projects that use it most often also use Faster Whisper (84.2%), NumPy (73.7%), Requests (68.4%).
Piper popularity over time
Gid Score 52: downloads 58, use in agent projects 27, GitHub stars 41, downloads trend 100 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Piper
| Faster Whisper | 84.2% of Piper projects · 261.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 73.7% of Piper projects · 12.6× more than average |
| Requests | 68.4% of Piper projects · 10.1× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 68.4% of Piper projects · 7.5× more than average |
| ONNX Runtime | 57.9% of Piper projects · 128.4× more than average |
| psutil | 57.9% of Piper projects · 30.7× more than average |
| FastAPI | 57.9% of Piper projects · 7.7× more than average |
| Pillow | 52.6% of Piper projects · 13.7× more than average |
Install
| Package | pip install piper-tts |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (19) |
| Example projects | FutureSpeakAI/Agent-Friday, nay-cat/LiveKit-PiperTTS-Plugin |
Alternatives to Piper
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