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Audio Gen — Model Guides

Guides to leading speech and music generation models — quality, local requirements, and licensing.

ElevenLabs
Cloud only
ElevenLabs
The benchmark for lifelike AI speech — voice cloning, multilingual dubbing, and a polished API.
4 min read · Open guide →
OpenAI Audio (TTS & Speech APIs)
Cloud only
OpenAI
Simple, high-quality speech generation and transcription through the OpenAI API ecosystem.
4 min read · Open guide →
Suno
Cloud only
Suno
Full songs from a text prompt — vocals, lyrics, instrumentation, and structure in one shot.
4 min read · Open guide →
Kokoro TTS
Open weights
open-source (community)
An 82-million-parameter TTS that runs on a CPU and sounds shockingly good — local speech with zero friction.
4 min read · Open guide →
Stable Audio Open
Open weights
Stability AI
Open-weights sound effects and audio stingers — drum hits, foley, textures, and ambient beds from a text prompt.
4 min read · Open guide →
F5-TTS
Open weights
Open source (SWivid)
Fast, expressive open-weights voice cloning — reference-audio speech that runs on a consumer GPU.
4 min read · Open guide →
MusicGen Medium 1.5B
Open weights
Meta
Meta's open music generator — instrumental loops and melodies from text, running locally on a mid-range GPU.
4 min read · Open guide →

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