Audio and podcasting

ElevenLabs alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

babysor/MockingBird36,922licence unclearReal-time voice cloning system to generate speech in cloned voices from short samples.Open on GitHub advplyr/audiobookshelf13,885GPL-3.0Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with web UI for serving and downloading audio files.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Proprietary, production-grade voice models and quality (Eleven v3 / Flash)
Large curated voice library (10,000+ voices) and instant voice marketplace
Low-latency, highly-optimized inference at scale
Integrated ElevenAgents conversational/omnichannel platform and orchestration
Enterprise features: DPA/SLAs, BAAs/HIPAA, custom SSO and seats, priority support

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches ElevenLabs, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.