Alternatives

Merlin alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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#1

Vits

Similarity 142Trust 85Strong 79

VITS: Conditional Variational Autoencoder with Adversarial Learning for End-to-End Text-to-Speech

7.9K starsDec 6, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add jaywalnut310/vits
#2

MockingBird

Similarity 141Trust 87Excellent 100

🚀Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time

37K starsMar 3, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add babysor/MockingBird
#3

TTS

Similarity 138Trust 88Excellent 88

🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production

46K starsAug 16, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add coqui-ai/TTS
#4

Edge Tts

Similarity 138Trust 84Excellent 99

Use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service from Python WITHOUT needing Microsoft Edge or Windows or an API key

11K starsMar 22, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add rany2/edge-tts
#5

Tacotron 2

Similarity 138Trust 81Strong 74

DeepMind's Tacotron-2 Tensorflow implementation

2.3K starsJul 6, 2023 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add Rayhane-mamah/Tacotron-2
#6

RealtimeTTS

Similarity 138Trust 91Excellent 100

Converts text to speech in realtime

4.0K starsMay 31, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add KoljaB/RealtimeTTS
#7

VieNeu TTS

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

Vietnamese TTS with instant voice cloning • On-device • Real-time CPU inference • 24kHz audio quality • Chuyển văn bản thành giọng nói tiếng Việt • Text to speech tiếng Việt • TTS tiếng Việt

1.9K starsJun 20, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add pnnbao97/VieNeu-TTS
#8

IMS Toucan

Similarity 135Trust 88Excellent 95

Controllable and fast Text-to-Speech for over 7000 languages!

2.2K starsJan 25, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add DigitalPhonetics/IMS-Toucan
#9

GPT SoVITS

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)

59K starsJun 20, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS
#10

VoxCPM

Similarity 134Trust 95Excellent 100

VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning

31K starsJun 10, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add OpenBMB/VoxCPM
#11

EmotiVoice

Similarity 134Trust 84Strong 80

EmotiVoice 😊: a Multi-Voice and Prompt-Controlled TTS Engine

8.5K starsAug 13, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add netease-youdao/EmotiVoice
#12

Pyvideotrans

Similarity 133Trust 93Excellent 100

Translate the video from one language to another and embed dubbing & subtitles.

18K starsJun 19, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add jianchang512/pyvideotrans
#13

Index Tts

Similarity 132Trust 90Excellent 100

An Industrial-Level Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech System

21K starsJun 16, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add index-tts/index-tts
#14

Metavoice Src

Similarity 132Trust 83Strong 77

Foundational model for human-like, expressive TTS

4.2K starsJul 30, 2024 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add metavoiceio/metavoice-src
#15

Dia

Similarity 132Trust 89Excellent 98

A TTS model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue in one pass.

19K starsNov 19, 2025 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add nari-labs/dia
#16

Irodori TTS

Similarity 131Trust 84Excellent 87

A Flow Matching-based Text-to-Speech Model with Emoji-driven Style Control

965 starsJun 4, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add Aratako/Irodori-TTS

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