XTTS v2
Multilingual voice-cloning TTS — clone any voice from 3 seconds of audio across 16 languages.
Retired
XTTS v2 appears to be discontinued or shut down — Coqui shut down Jan 2024; frozen, community forks only This page is kept as an archive record and is excluded from search engines.
About
XTTS v2 is Coqui's multilingual text-to-speech model: zero-shot voice cloning from a ~3-second reference clip, cross-lingual synthesis, and fine-grained control over speaking rate and style. With 6.5M Hugging Face downloads it remains one of the most-used open TTS checkpoints ever released.
Important caveats. Coqui the company shut down in January 2024, so XTTS v2 is frozen in time — no updates, no security fixes, and community forks carry it forward. More importantly, the weights are under the Coqui Public Model License (CPML): custom, NOT open source — commercial use requires Coqui's permission (unobtainable from a defunct company, which leaves commercial users in a legal gray zone). Treat as research/personal-use weights. Newer Apache-2.0 alternatives (CosyVoice2, Orpheus, KittenTTS) exist for commercial work.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
No standardized TTS benchmarks. Provider-claimed (Coqui): high speaker similarity and naturalness across 16 languages vs. contemporary 2023-era systems — treat as provider-claimed; independent evaluations are scarce and the model is 2+ years old.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Enormous adoption (6.5M HF downloads, peer-normalized near the top) is real, but the score is capped hard by reality: the vendor is dead (no maintenance since Jan 2024), and the CPML license is not open source — commercial use needs permission from a company that no longer exists. Fine for research and personal projects; a legal gray zone for products.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.8/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 4.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.2/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · HF downloads 6,492,115 (peer-normalized)
- · released 1002 days ago
- · manual review: 6.5M downloads but vendor dead (Jan 2024), frozen model, commercial-use legal gray zone; newer Apache-2.0 alternatives exist; license: Coqui Public Model License — custom, NOT open source; commercial use needs permission from a defunct company
- · capped at 6: vendor defunct + CPML leaves commercial use in a legal gray zone