onnxvoice

onnxvoice manages, verifies, stores, and executes ONNX voice-model assets through shared catalogs, a content-addressed cache, and a common Python API.

It is a model asset and runtime layer, not a complete text-to-speech frontend. Text normalization, G2P/phonemization, sentence planning, and higher-level voice policy belong to producer packages.

Install

The base package does not install ONNX Runtime. Install the provider extra for the target system:

python -m pip install onnxvoice
python -m pip install "onnxvoice[cpu]"
python -m pip install "onnxvoice[gpu]"
python -m pip install "onnxvoice[directml]"
python -m pip install "onnxvoice[openvino]"

For Pocket's optional Hugging Face voice-state downloads, add the pocket extra. See Pocket download setup.

Pocket reference-voice prompts are managed assets as well: kyutai-tts-voices:<id> references resolve to pinned, integrity-checked prompts. See Python usage.

Quick start

CLI

onnxvoice list --kind voice --lang en-US
onnxvoice install piper:en_US-lessac-medium
onnxvoice installed
onnxvoice cache info

Python

from onnxvoice import OnnxVoice

voice = OnnxVoice()
installation = voice.install("piper:en_US-lessac-medium")
runtime = voice.open(installation, provider="cpu")
try:
    # Supply model-ready token IDs from your frontend.
    result = runtime.infer([1, 20, 14, 5, 2])
    print(result.audio.shape, result.sample_rate)
finally:
    runtime.close()

install() acquires catalog assets. open() uses an existing managed installation and does not download assets. open_local() opens explicit files without copying or registering them.

Supported systems

Catalog contents determine which named voices are available. Discovery does not depend on a separate capability list. Adapters execute system-specific model contracts and do not imply text normalization or phonemization support.

Documentation

The full documentation includes task-oriented CLI and Python guides, storage and update behavior, provider setup, local-model workflows, per-system runtime contracts, and the API reference.

Development

python -m pip install -e ".[dev,cpu]"
pytest -q
python docs/make.py html

License

The source code is Apache-2.0. Downloaded models, voices, and model cards retain their own licenses and terms. Installing an asset through onnxvoice does not relicense it.