VoicedByMe / Use cases / Free AI voice generator, offline

Guide · Windows and Mac · Updated 2 November 2026

A free AI voice generator that works without the internet.

Yes, you can make natural AI voices for free without the internet: open-source voice models such as Piper, Kokoro and Qwen3-TTS run on your own computer. They cost nothing and never upload your text, but most need some setup, and a decent graphics card for speed. Free online generators are quicker to start, but they cap how much you can make, ask for an account, and often don't allow commercial use. VoicedByMe is the no-setup option: natural voices or your own, offline, for $30 once after a free day.

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Samples made offline with ready-made voices. All of them are AI-generated.

Online or offline

What "free" usually means online.

A limit

Free online generators let you make a few thousand characters a day or a month. A script, a course or a book runs out fast.

An account

Most want you to sign up before you can make more than a few lines, and some ask for a card.

Your text is uploaded

Everything you type is sent to their servers to be turned into speech. Fine for a shopping list, less so for a client's script.

Commercial use

Free plans often don't let you use the audio in videos you earn money from, or ask you to credit them. ElevenLabs' free plan, for example, has no commercial licence.

Voice cloning

Making the voice sound like you is almost always a paid feature. What's really free.

Offline is different

When the voice runs on your own computer, there's no limit, nothing is uploaded, and it works on a plane. The price is a little setup and a capable computer.

Free and offline

Free voices that run on your computer.

Already on your Mac or PC

On a Mac, download a Premium voice in System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content. Select any text and press OptionEsc to hear it, or save it as audio with the Terminal command say -o speech.aiff "Your text". Windows 11 has free natural voices too, but only Narrator uses them; the free Balabolka app saves audio files with Windows' older, more robotic voices.

Piper

A free, open-source voice engine that's very fast and runs on an ordinary processor, with voices in dozens of languages. You use it from the command line or through small community apps. It doesn't clone voices, and each voice has its own licence.

Kokoro

A small free model (Apache 2.0) that sounds remarkably natural in English and a handful of other languages. Like Piper, it's mostly used from the command line or community apps, and it doesn't clone voices.

Qwen3-TTS and Chatterbox

Free open models that can also clone a voice from a short clip. They want a graphics card and a Python setup, or a free app that bundles them, such as VoiceStudio or Voicebox. How the free apps compare.

Check the licence before you publish anything: Kokoro and Qwen3-TTS allow commercial use, but F5-TTS's weights and XTTS-v2 don't.

What you need

Your computer does the work.

A graphics card helps

A recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics card, or a Mac with Apple silicon, makes the bigger models fast. Without one they still work, more slowly: fine for saving files, slow for reading live.

Some disk space

From tens of megabytes for a Piper voice to a couple of gigabytes for the models that clone.

A bit of patience

Most open models need Python and the command line. VoiceStudio, Voicebox and VoicedByMe have normal installers.

No setup

One installer, natural voices everywhere.

70 voices, or yours

Pick a ready-made voice, or clone your own from about twenty seconds of talking, on your computer.

Make audio files

Type or paste text, pick a voice and click Save audio for an M4A or WAV file. A whole book becomes an audiobook with chapters.

Hear any app

Select text anywhere and press CtrlAltR to hear it in a natural voice.

No limits, no uploads

It runs on your computer, so a novel costs the same as a sentence and nothing leaves your machine.

Yours to publish

Commercial use is included. Every file carries an inaudible watermark and a label saying it's AI-made.

The honest catches

Eight languages only, on Windows 10 and 11 or Macs with Apple silicon. Free for a day, then $30 once.

Compared

Ways to make an AI voice for free.

	Price	Works offline	Setup	Limits	Your own voice
VoicedByMe	Free for a day, then $30 once	Yes	An installer	None	Yes
Free online generators	Free, then monthly plans	No	None	Characters per day or month	Usually paid
Mac and Windows voices	Free	Yes	None	None	No
Piper, Kokoro	Free	Yes	Command line or community apps	None	No
Qwen3-TTS, Chatterbox (through VoiceStudio or Voicebox)	Free	Yes	An installer or Python; a graphics card helps	None	Yes

As of October 2026. Check each app's own site for its current features and prices.

Questions

Is there a free AI voice generator that works offline?

Yes. Piper, Kokoro and Qwen3-TTS are free, open-source models that run on your own computer, and the Mac's Premium voices are free and built in. Most open models need some setup; VoicedByMe is the no-setup option, after a free day.

What's the best free AI voice generator with no limits?

One that runs on your own computer: there's nothing to meter. Kokoro sounds the most natural of the free ones in English; Qwen3-TTS and Chatterbox can also clone a voice. Online generators always have a limit on their free plans.

Can I use free AI voices commercially?

It depends on the licence. Kokoro and Qwen3-TTS (Apache 2.0) allow it; F5-TTS's weights and XTTS-v2 don't; ElevenLabs' free plan doesn't. VoicedByMe's licence includes commercial use.

Do I need a graphics card?

Not for Piper, which runs on any processor. For the bigger, more natural models, a recent graphics card or an Apple silicon Mac makes them fast; without one they still work for saving files.

Is there a free AI voice generator without signing up?

The offline ones need no account at all. Online generators usually ask you to sign up before you can make more than a few lines.

Can I make an AI voice of myself for free?

Yes, with open models such as Qwen3-TTS and a bit of setup, or Apple's Personal Voice, which speaks only through Live Speech. Free voice cloning, explained.

Is my text private with an offline generator?

Yes. The voice runs on your computer, so your text and audio never leave it.

How much does it cost?

$30 once for the first 50 customers, then $50. No subscription. The full app is free for one day so you can try it first. A license is for one computer.

For Windows 10 and 11, and Macs with Apple silicon

Natural voices, no limits, no internet.

$30once. Launch price for the first 50 customers, then $50.
One computer. No subscription.

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The full app, free for 24 hours. Purchases aren't refundable, so please try it first.