Parler-TTS
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Hugging Face
- C · CEO & Politics
- Clément Delangue — European progressive / open-source advocate
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- France
- K · Key Staffers
- Thomas Wolf (CSO & Co-Founder), Julien Chaumond (CTO & Co-Founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Speech Synthesis
- N · Safety Issues
- Synthetic audio risks: voice cloning or impersonation misuse, copyright/style imitation concerns, and possible unsafe or biased outputs depending on deployment safeguards.
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Hugging Face's Parler-TTS, a lightweight, fully open-source text-to-speech model that speaks in a style described in text (gender, pitch, speaking style and more), reproducing research by Stability AI and the University of Edinburgh; the August 2024 Mini (880M parameters) and Large (2.3B) versions were trained on 45K hours of audiobook data, with datasets, training code and weights all released.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($4.5B valuation, Aug 2023; exploring a sale at $13B+ as of Aug 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @huggingface
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Speech Synthesis from Hugging Face, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Parler-TTS.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/parler-tts.html
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