Orpheus-FastAPI is a high-performance self-hosted text-to-speech server built with FastAPI.
It provides an OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech endpoint together with a modern web interface for generating speech locally. The project is designed to work with external inference servers such as llama.cpp, LM Studio, and GPUStack, and focuses on fast GPU-accelerated synthesis with support for expressive tags, long-form generation, and multilingual voice models.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides an OpenAI-compatible text-to-speech API endpoint.
- Includes a responsive web interface with waveform visualisation.
- Supports multilingual speech synthesis with multiple voices across several languages.
- Supports emotion tags for more expressive generated speech.
- Handles long-form audio generation through batching and crossfaded stitching.
- Can connect to external inference servers such as llama.cpp, LM Studio, and GPUStack.
- Offers Docker deployment options for GPU, ROCm, and CPU-based setups.
- Optimised for fast local inference on RTX-class GPUs.
Website: github.com/Lex-au/Orpheus-FastAPI
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Developer: Alexander J.
License: Apache License 2.0
Orpheus-FastAPI is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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