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MLX-Audio

Speech synthesis, transcription and voice conversion on Apple Silicon

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What it is

A Python library and command-line toolkit that runs text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech and music generation models locally on Apple Silicon using the MLX framework. It supports many open models such as Kokoro, Qwen3-TTS, Dia and Chatterbox, with voice cloning, speed control, streaming output and quantization down to a few bits. Developers building voice features for Mac or iOS apps can also use its Swift package, browser interface, or OpenAI-compatible REST API server.

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8,073 GitHub stars.
8,073

Forks
761
Commits
1,320
Contributors
137
Language
Python
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
November 2024
First release
February 2025
Platforms
macOS, iOS, CLI, self-hosted, library
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
ElevenLabs
Author
Prince Canuma
Tags
  • music-generation
  • text-to-speech
  • speech-to-text
  • voice-cloning
  • local-ai
  • model-optimization

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