TTS Sample Bench
Local & on-device text-to-speech engines on Rowan · 2026-08-31 · each clip says the engine name, then the quote
Breeze TTS 2 — default voice
BreezeBlue 7B-class open TTS 2, running on Rowan's RX 9070 XT (ROCm). The heavyweight of the bench.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Qwen3-TTS 0.6B — Vivian
2026 Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 0.6B CustomVoice, CPU-inferable.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” XTTS-v2 — Jenny clone
Coqui XTTS-v2 voice-cloned from the edge-tts Jenny reference sample.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Kokoro-82M — af_heart
US female audiobook voice.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Kokoro-82M — am_adam
US male voice.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Kokoro-82M — bf_emma
UK female voice.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Piper — lessac
US female (medium).
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Piper — amy
US female (medium).
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Piper — ryan
US male (high).
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Piper — alan
UK male (medium).
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” edge-tts — Jenny
Microsoft cloud reference voice.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” espeak-ng
Classic formant synthesizer baseline.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”