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piper-tts

Fast and local neural text-to-speech engine
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

piper-tts has 701K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 1.4.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2023.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is built on top of onnxruntime and pathvalidate. It is used by 34 tracked packages, including ubo-app, ubo-app-assistant and pipulate.

Downloads
Day
23.5K
Week
170.7K
Month
700.9K
Stars
4.7K
Forks
446
Issues
79
Version
1.4.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
77
Adoption
78
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
700,948
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
700,948
Stars
4,671
Stars per 1k downloads
6.66
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
24,385
Month daily avg
23,365
Momentum
+4.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GPL-3.0-or-later
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
95 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
2.0
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
14
Monthly downloads
700,948
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
66
 
Issue Burden
16.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
88d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 14.4K
Windows 3.2K
macOS 1.8K

Python Versions

3.12
37.8% 7.2K
3.11
26.9% 5.1K
3.14
13.5% 2.6K
3.10
11.5% 2.2K
3.13
10.3% 2.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
11.1K
2. DE DE
992
3. IN IN
816
4. CN CN
484
5. SG SG
447
6. BR BR
356
7. FR FR
350
8. GB GB
296
9. NL NL
242
10. ES ES
238

Package Information

License
GPL-3.0-or-later
First Release
July 27, 2023
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.4.2
Total Releases
6
Contributors
14
Open PRs
30
Archived
No
Author
The Home Assistant Authors
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp39 py3
Keywords
home assistant tts text-to-speech
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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