The Free, Open-Source ElevenLabs: Clone Your Voice on Your Own Computer
One developer built a free app that clones your voice from a few seconds of audio, reads books aloud, types what you say and dubs your videos into other languages, all on your own machine. What it does, what it needs, and how to set it up.
Cloning your voice on ElevenLabs means a paid plan, every month, because cloning isn't on its free tier. There is now a free, open-source app that does it on your own computer instead. One developer wrote almost all of it, and it has passed 43,000 stars on GitHub.
You give it 5 to 15 seconds of you talking, and it reads anything back in your voice. No account, no cloud, no API key, so your voice never leaves your machine and there's nothing to cancel.
What it does
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Voice cloning | Reads any text in your voice from a 5 to 15 second clip. |
| Audiobooks | Turns a whole book or a long script into audio in your voice, with a queue for long jobs. |
| Dictation | A floating button: talk, and it types out what you said. |
| Transcripts | Writes out any recording and splits it by who said what. |
| Video dubbing | Re-voices your video in another language, in your own voice, timed to the original. |
| Voice design | Describe a voice in words and it makes one that doesn't belong to anyone. |
Every clip it makes gets an AI watermark added, so it can be told apart from a real recording.
What you need
- A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 13.3 or later, a Windows 10 or 11 PC, or Linux.
- About 10 GB of free disk space for the app and its voice models.
- No graphics card required. It runs on the processor alone, just several times slower. On Windows only NVIDIA cards speed it up; AMD cards run on the processor.
- ⚠ Intel Macs can't run it. The window opens, but the voice engine inside can't install. An old Windows or Linux laptop works; an old Intel MacBook doesn't.
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