piper and piper_ros

One is the core text-to-speech system and the other is a ROS 2 integration, making them ecosystem siblings where the latter extends the former's functionality into a specific robotic framework.

piper
45
Emerging
piper_ros
36
Emerging
Maintenance 0/25
Adoption 10/25
Maturity 16/25
Community 19/25
Maintenance 10/25
Adoption 4/25
Maturity 9/25
Community 13/25
Stars: 10,694
Forks: 926
Downloads:
Commits (30d): 0
Language: C++
License: MIT
Stars: 6
Forks: 2
Downloads:
Commits (30d): 0
Language: C++
License: MIT
Archived Stale 6m No Package No Dependents
No Package No Dependents

About piper

rhasspy/piper

A fast, local neural text to speech system

About piper_ros

mgonzs13/piper_ros

piper Text-to-Speech for ROS 2

Wraps the lightweight Piper engine with ROS 2 action-based TTS interface, supporting multi-language voice models from HuggingFace with configurable synthesis parameters. Integrates via the audio_common framework for standardized audio publishing, enabling straightforward text-to-speech synthesis across ROS 2 applications using ONNX-based neural vocoder models.

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