Vois 2.x goes live today: what should local text to speech do that cloud tools refuse to?
Hey everyone, Praney here, the maker of Vois.
Vois 2.x launches on Product Hunt today. The short version: a text to
speech studio that runs entirely on your desktop, with unlimited
generation on every subscription. 100+ voices, voice cloning with a
consent step, a multi-speaker timeline with mastering, and a CLI that AI
agents can drive. For launch week it is $10/month, applied automatically
at checkout, and the price holds for the life of your subscription. Ends
August 31.
I want to use this thread for the question I care about most: what should
a local-first voice tool do that the cloud tools will not? Things like
handling scripts under NDA, running offline on location, batch pipelines
on your own hardware, agent workflows. If you produce podcasts,
audiobooks, courses, or game dialogue, tell me where the current tools
fight you. I will answer everything today.
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Honest answer as someone who'd be a user: privacy isn't what would move me. Not re-doing work would.
I generate pronunciation audio for flashcards. Cloud TTS bills per character, so I had to build a cache before I could ship: hash the text plus voice plus language, check storage, only synthesize a miss. Pure overhead, exists only because the meter runs.
Unlimited local generation should delete that problem, but only if the tool doesn't quietly recreate it. If your CLI re-renders a whole batch when I change one line, I've traded a bill for a wait, and with agents driving it that happens constantly. Same output path for the same text, voice and settings, skip what exists, that's the feature I'd actually notice.
What keeps me on cloud is language coverage. We voice 20 languages, and the fancier tiers I looked at covered fewer, not more, no Polish at all in one case. The tier we shipped won 13 of 15 in a blind listening test against the premium one, which is the only reason I trust it. Any local model gets the same test, and English-only benchmarks tell me nothing about it.
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@siarheihamanovich Fair point, Vois 2.0 is free to try. Let us know how you go. most of our users love Vois and use it daily especially the vois-cli
https://vois.so/download