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ZipVoice⚡

Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching

Overview

ZipVoice is a series of fast and high-quality zero-shot TTS models based on flow matching.

1. Key features

Small and fast: only 123M parameters.
High-quality voice cloning: state-of-the-art performance in speaker similarity, intelligibility, and naturalness.
Multi-lingual: support Chinese and English.
Multi-mode: support both single-speaker and dialogue speech generation.

2. Model variants

Model Name	Description	Paper	Demo
ZipVoice	The basic model supporting zero-shot single-speaker TTS in both Chinese and English.
ZipVoice-Distill	The distilled version of ZipVoice, featuring improved speed with minimal performance degradation.
ZipVoice-Dialog	A dialogue generation model built on ZipVoice, capable of generating single-channel two-party spoken dialogues.
ZipVoice-Dialog-Stereo	The stereo variant of ZipVoice-Dialog, enabling two-channel dialogue generation with each speaker assigned to a distinct channel.

News

2025/07/14: ZipVoice-Dialog and ZipVoice-Dialog-Stereo, two spoken dialogue generation models, are released.

2025/07/14: OpenDialog dataset, a 6.8k-hour spoken dialogue dataset, is realeased. Download at , . Check details at .

2025/06/16: ZipVoice and ZipVoice-Distill are released.

Installation

1. Clone the ZipVoice repository

git clone https://github.com/k2-fsa/ZipVoice.git

2. (Optional) Create a Python virtual environment

python3 -m venv zipvoice
source zipvoice/bin/activate

3. Install the required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Install k2 for training or efficient inference

k2 is necessary for training and can speed up inference. Nevertheless, you can still use the inference mode of ZipVoice without installing k2.

Note: Make sure to install the k2 version that matches your PyTorch and CUDA version. For example, if you are using pytorch 2.5.1 and CUDA 12.1, you can install k2 as follows:

pip install k2==1.24.4.dev20250208+cuda12.1.torch2.5.1 -f https://k2-fsa.github.io/k2/cuda.html

Please refer to https://k2-fsa.org/get-started/k2/ for details. Users in China mainland can refer to https://k2-fsa.org/zh-CN/get-started/k2/.

To check the k2 installation:

python3 -c "import k2; print(k2.__file__)"

Usage

1. Single-speaker speech generation

To generate single-speaker speech with our pre-trained ZipVoice or ZipVoice-Distill models, use the following commands (Required models will be downloaded from HuggingFace):

1.1 Inference of a single sentence

python3 -m zipvoice.bin.infer_zipvoice \
    --model-name zipvoice \
    --prompt-wav prompt.wav \
    --prompt-text "I am the transcription of the prompt wav." \
    --text "I am the text to be synthesized." \
    --res-wav-path result.wav

--model-name can be zipvoice or zipvoice_distill, which are models before and after distillation, respectively.
If <> or [] appear in the text, strings enclosed by them will be treated as special tokens. <> denotes Chinese pinyin and [] denotes other special tags.

1.2 Inference of a list of sentences

python3 -m zipvoice.bin.infer_zipvoice \
    --model-name zipvoice \
    --test-list test.tsv \
    --res-dir results

Each line of test.tsv is in the format of {wav_name}\t{prompt_transcription}\t{prompt_wav}\t{text}.

2. Dialogue speech generation

2.1 Inference command

To generate two-party spoken dialogues with our pre-trained ZipVoice-Dialogue or ZipVoice-Dialogue-Stereo models, use the following commands (Required models will be downloaded from HuggingFace):

python3 -m zipvoice.bin.infer_zipvoice_dialog \
    --model-name "zipvoice_dialog" \
    --test-list test.tsv \
    --res-dir results

--model-name can be zipvoice_dialog or zipvoice_dialog_stereo, which generate mono and stereo dialogues, respectively.

2.2 Input formats

Each line of test.tsv is in one of the following formats:

(1) Merged prompt format where the audios and transcriptions of two speakers prompts are merged into one prompt wav file:

{wav_name}\t{prompt_transcription}\t{prompt_wav}\t{text}

wav_name is the name of the output wav file.
prompt_transcription is the transcription of the conversational prompt wav, e.g, "[S1] Hello. [S2] How are you?"
prompt_wav is the path to the prompt wav.
text is the text to be synthesized, e.g. "[S1] I'm fine. [S2] What's your name? [S1] I'm Eric. [S2] Hi Eric."

(2) Splitted prompt format where the audios and transciptions of two speakers exist in separate files:

{wav_name}\t{spk1_prompt_transcription}\t{spk2_prompt_transcription}\t{spk1_prompt_wav}\t{spk2_prompt_wav}\t{text}'

wav_name is the name of the output wav file.
spk1_prompt_transcription is the transcription of the first speaker's prompt wav, e.g, "Hello"
spk2_prompt_transcription is the transcription of the second speaker's prompt wav, e.g, "How are you?"
spk1_prompt_wav is the path to the first speaker's prompt wav file.
spk2_prompt_wav is the path to the second speaker's prompt wav file.
text is the text to be synthesized, e.g. "[S1] I'm fine. [S2] What's your name? [S1] I'm Eric. [S2] Hi Eric."

3 Guidance for better usage:

3.1 Prompt length

We recommand a short prompt wav file (e.g., less than 3 seconds for single-speaker speech generation, less than 10 seconds for dialogue speech generation) for faster inference speed. A very long prompt will slow down the inference and degenerate the speech quality.

3.2 Speed optimization

If the inference speed is unsatisfactory, you can speed it up as follows:

Distill model and less steps: For the single-speaker speech generation model, we use the zipvoice model by default for better speech quality. If faster speed is a priority, you can switch to the zipvoice_distill and can reduce the --num-steps to as low as 4 (8 by default).
CPU speedup with multi-threading: When running on CPU, you can pass the --num-thread parameter (e.g., --num-thread 4) to increase the number of threads for faster speed. We use 1 thread by default.
CPU speedup with ONNX: When running on CPU, you can use ONNX models with zipvoice.bin.infer_zipvoice_onnx for faster speed (haven't supported ONNX for dialogue generation models yet). For even faster speed, you can further set --onnx-int8 True to use an INT8-quantized ONNX model. Note that the quantized model will result in a certain degree of speech quality degradation. Don't use ONNX on GPU, as it is slower than PyTorch on GPU.

3.3 Memory control

The given text will be splitted into chunks based on punctuation (for single-speaker speech generation) or speaker-turn symbol (for dialogue speech generation). Then, the chunked texts will be processed in batches. Therefore, the model can process arbitrarily long text with almost constant memory usage. You can control memory usage by adjusting the --max-duration parameter.

3.4 "Raw" evaluation

By default, we preprocess inputs (prompt wav, prompt transcription, and text) for efficient inference and better performance. If you want to evaluate the model’s "raw" performance using exact provided inputs (e.g., to reproduce the results in our paper), you can pass --raw-evaluation True.

3.5 Short text

When generating speech for very short texts (e.g., one or two words), the generated speech may sometimes omit certain pronunciations. To resolve this issue, you can pass --speed 0.3 (where 0.3 is a tunable value) to extend the duration of the generated speech.

3.6 Correcting mispronounced chinese polyphone characters

We use pypinyin to convert Chinese characters to pinyin. However, it can occasionally mispronounce polyphone characters (多音字).

To manually correct these mispronunciations, enclose the corrected pinyin in angle brackets < > and include the tone mark.

Example:

Original text: 这把剑长三十公分
Correct the pinyin of 长: 这把剑<chang2>三十公分

Note: If you want to manually assign multiple pinyins, enclose each pinyin with <>, e.g., 这把<jian4><chang2><san1>十公分

3.7 Remove long silences from the generated speech

Model will automatically determine the positions and lengths of silences in the generated speech. It occasionally has long silence in the middle of the speech. If you don't want this, you can pass --remove-long-sil to remove long silences in the middle of the generated speech (edge silences will be removed by default).

3.8 Model downloading

If you have trouble connecting to HuggingFace when downloading the pre-trained models, try switching endpoint to the mirror site: export HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com.

Train Your Own Model

See the egs directory for training, fine-tuning and evaluation examples.

C++ Deployment

Check sherpa-onnx for the C++ deployment solution on CPU.

Discussion & Communication

You can directly discuss on Github Issues.

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Citation

@article{zhu2025zipvoice,
      title={ZipVoice: Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching},
      author={Zhu, Han and Kang, Wei and Yao, Zengwei and Guo, Liyong and Kuang, Fangjun and Li, Zhaoqing and Zhuang, Weiji and Lin, Long and Povey, Daniel},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13053},
      year={2025}
}

@article{zhu2025zipvoicedialog,
      title={ZipVoice-Dialog: Non-Autoregressive Spoken Dialogue Generation with Flow Matching},
      author={Zhu, Han and Kang, Wei and Guo, Liyong and Yao, Zengwei and Kuang, Fangjun and Zhuang, Weiji and Li, Zhaoqing and Han, Zhifeng and Zhang, Dong and Zhang, Xin and Song, Xingchen and Lin, Long and Povey, Daniel},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.09318},
      year={2025}
}