Fish Speech, GPT-SoVITS top local TTS for audiobooks

Fish Speech leads with its Dual-Autoregressive architecture, providing exceptional emotional range and natural breathing in long narrations. GPT-SoVITS remains a community favorite for its accessible WebUI and robust few-shot cloning, while newer diffusion-based models like F5-TTS handle complex punctuation with zero-shot accuracy. Despite high VRAM requirements, wrappers like AllTalk provide non-technical users a bridge to these advanced local capabilities.