OpenBMB/VoxCPM

VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning

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VoxCPM is a tokenizer-free Text-to-Speech system that directly generates continuous speech representations via an end-to-end diffusion autoregressive architecture, bypassing discrete tokenization to achieve highly natural and expressive synthesis.

VoxCPM2 is the latest major release — a 2B parameter model trained on over 2 million hours of multilingual speech data, now supporting 30 languages, Voice Design, Controllable Voice Cloning, and 48kHz studio-quality audio output. Built on a MiniCPM-4 backbone.

✨ Highlights

• 🌍 30-Language Multilingual — Input text in any of the 30 supported languages and synthesize directly, no language tag needed
• 🎨 Voice Design — Create a brand-new voice from a natural-language description alone (gender, age, tone, emotion, pace …), no reference audio required
• 🎛️ Controllable Cloning — Clone any voice from a short reference clip, with optional style guidance to steer emotion, pace, and expression while preserving the original timbre
• 🎙️ Ultimate Cloning — Reproduce every vocal nuance: provide both reference audio and its transcript, and the model continues seamlessly from the reference, faithfully preserving every vocal detail — timbre, rhythm, emotion, and style (same as VoxCPM1.5)
• 🔊 48kHz High-Quality Audio — Accepts 16kHz reference audio and directly outputs 48kHz studio-quality audio via AudioVAE V2's asymmetric encode/decode design, with built-in super-resolution — no external upsampler needed
• 🧠 Context-Aware Synthesis — Automatically infers appropriate prosody and expressiveness from text content
• ⚡ Real-Time Streaming — RTF as low as ~0.3 on NVIDIA RTX 4090, and ~0.13 accelerated by Nano-vLLM or vLLM-Omni — official vLLM omni-modal serving for VoxCPM2 with PagedAttention and an OpenAI-compatible API
• 📜 Fully Open-Source & Commercial-Ready — Weights and code released under the Apache-2.0 license, free for commercial use

🌍 Supported Languages (30)
Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese

Chinese Dialect: 四川话, 粤语, 吴语, 东北话, 河南话, 陕西话, 山东话, 天津话, 闽南话

News

• [2026.04] 🔥 We release VoxCPM2 — 2B, 30 languages, Voice Design & Controllable Voice Cloning, 48kHz audio output! Weights | Docs | Playground | Technical Report
• [2025.12] 🎉 Open-source VoxCPM1.5 weights with SFT & LoRA fine-tuning. (🏆 #1 GitHub Trending)
• [2025.09] 🔥 Release VoxCPM Technical Report.
• [2025.09] 🎉 Open-source VoxCPM-0.5B weights (🏆 #1 HuggingFace Trending)

Contents

• Quick Start
  • Installation
  • Python API
  • CLI Usage
  • Web Demo
  • Production Deployment
  • On-Device Inference (llama.cpp-omni)
• Models & Versions
• Performance
• Fine-tuning
• Documentation
• Ecosystem & Community
• Risks and Limitations
• Citation

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

pip install voxcpm

Requirements: Python ≥ 3.10 (<3.13), PyTorch ≥ 2.5.0, CUDA ≥ 12.0. See Quick Start Docs for details.

Python API

🗣️ Text-to-Speech

from voxcpm import VoxCPM
import soundfile as sf

model = VoxCPM.from_pretrained(
  "openbmb/VoxCPM2",
  load_denoiser=False,
)

wav = model.generate(
    text="VoxCPM2 is the current recommended release for realistic multilingual speech synthesis.",
    cfg_value=2.0,
    inference_timesteps=10,
    seed=42,
)
sf.write("demo.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)
print("saved: demo.wav")

If you prefer downloading from ModelScope first, you can use:

pip install modelscope

from modelscope import snapshot_download
snapshot_download("OpenBMB/VoxCPM2", local_dir='./pretrained_models/VoxCPM2') # specify the local directory to save the model

from voxcpm import VoxCPM
import soundfile as sf
model = VoxCPM.from_pretrained("./pretrained_models/VoxCPM2", load_denoiser=False)

wav = model.generate(
    text="VoxCPM2 is the current recommended release for realistic multilingual speech synthesis.",
    cfg_value=2.0,
    inference_timesteps=10,
    seed=42,
)
sf.write("demo.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)

🎨 Voice Design

Create a voice from a natural-language description — no reference audio needed. Format: put the description in parentheses at the start of text(e.g. "(your voice description)The text to synthesize."):

wav = model.generate(
    text="(A young woman, gentle and sweet voice)Hello, welcome to VoxCPM2!",
    cfg_value=2.0,
    inference_timesteps=10,
    seed=42,
)
sf.write("voice_design.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)

🎛️ Controllable Voice Cloning

Upload a reference audio. The model clones the timbre, and you can still use control instructions to adjust speed, emotion, or style.

wav = model.generate(
    text="This is a cloned voice generated by VoxCPM2.",
    reference_wav_path="path/to/voice.wav",
)
sf.write("clone.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)

wav = model.generate(
    text="(slightly faster, cheerful tone)This is a cloned voice with style control.",
    reference_wav_path="path/to/voice.wav",
    cfg_value=2.0,
    inference_timesteps=10,
    seed=42,
)
sf.write("controllable_clone.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)

🎙️ Ultimate Cloning

Provide both the reference audio and its exact transcript for audio-continuation-based cloning with every vocal nuance reproduced. For maximum cloning similarity, pass the same reference clip to both reference_wav_path and prompt_wav_path as shown below:

wav = model.generate(
    text="This is an ultimate cloning demonstration using VoxCPM2.",
    prompt_wav_path="path/to/voice.wav",
    prompt_text="The transcript of the reference audio.",
    reference_wav_path="path/to/voice.wav", # optional, for better simliarity 
)
sf.write("hifi_clone.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)

🔄 Streaming API

import numpy as np

chunks = []
for chunk in model.generate_streaming(
    text="Streaming text to speech is easy with VoxCPM!",
):
    chunks.append(chunk)
wav = np.concatenate(chunks)
sf.write("streaming.wav", wav, model.tts_model.sample_rate)

CLI Usage

# Voice design (no reference audio needed)
voxcpm design \
  --text "VoxCPM2 brings studio-quality multilingual speech synthesis." \
  --output out.wav

# Controllable voice cloning with style control
voxcpm design \
  --text "VoxCPM2 brings studio-quality multilingual speech synthesis." \
  --control "Young female voice, warm and gentle, slightly smiling" \
  --seed 42 \
  --output out.wav

# Voice cloning (reference audio)
voxcpm clone \
  --text "This is a voice cloning demo." \
  --reference-audio path/to/voice.wav \
  --output out.wav

# Ultimate cloning (prompt audio + transcript)
voxcpm clone \
  --text "This is a voice cloning demo." \
  --prompt-audio path/to/voice.wav \
  --prompt-text "reference transcript" \
  --reference-audio path/to/voice.wav \ # optional, for better simliarity
  --output out.wav

# Batch processing
voxcpm batch --input examples/input.txt --output-dir outs

# Optional post-generation timestamps with stable-ts
pip install "voxcpm[timestamps]"
voxcpm design \
  --text "VoxCPM2 brings studio-quality multilingual speech synthesis." \
  --output out.wav \
  --timestamps \
  --timestamp-level word \
  --timestamp-language en

# Character timestamps are best-effort and are derived from word alignment
voxcpm design \
  --text "欢迎使用 VoxCPM2。" \
  --output out.wav \
  --timestamps \
  --timestamp-level char \
  --timestamp-language zh

# Help
voxcpm --help

Web Demo

python app.py --port 8808  # then open in browser: http://localhost:8808

Use --device to choose the runtime device:

python app.py --device auto

Supported values are auto, cpu, mps, cuda, and cuda:N. On Apple Silicon Macs, auto uses MPS when available.

🚢 Production Deployment (Nano-vLLM)

For high-throughput serving, use Nano-vLLM-VoxCPM — a dedicated inference engine built on Nano-vLLM with concurrent request support and an async API.

pip install nano-vllm-voxcpm

from nanovllm_voxcpm import VoxCPM
import numpy as np, soundfile as sf

server = VoxCPM.from_pretrained(model="/path/to/VoxCPM", devices=[0])
chunks = list(server.generate(target_text="Hello from VoxCPM!"))
sf.write("out.wav", np.concatenate(chunks), 48000)
server.stop()

RTF as low as ~0.13 on NVIDIA RTX 4090 (vs ~0.3 with the standard PyTorch implementation), with support for batched concurrent requests and a FastAPI HTTP server. See the Nano-vLLM-VoxCPM repo for deployment details.

🏭 Production Serving (vLLM-Omni)

For production multi-tenant deployments, use vLLM-Omni — the official vLLM project's omni-modal extension with native VoxCPM2 support. PagedAttention KV cache, continuous batching, and a drop-in OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech endpoint.

# Install from source (latest main — vllm-omni is rapidly evolving)
uv pip install vllm==0.19.0 --torch-backend=auto
git clone https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni.git && cd vllm-omni
uv pip install -e .

See the vLLM-Omni installation guide for other platforms (ROCm, XPU, MUSA, NPU) and Docker images.

# Launch an OpenAI-compatible TTS server (--omni enables omni-modal serving)
vllm serve openbmb/VoxCPM2 --omni --port 8000

# Call it from any OpenAI client
curl http://localhost:8000/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"openbmb/VoxCPM2","input":"Hello from VoxCPM2 on vLLM-Omni!","voice":"default"}' \
  --output out.wav

Built on the upstream vLLM scheduler, with batched concurrent requests, streaming chunk delivery, and multi-GPU deployment out of the box. See the VoxCPM2 example for full deployment recipes.

📱 On-Device Inference (llama.cpp-omni)

For on-device / edge deployment without Python, use llama.cpp-omni — a high-performance C++ inference engine built on llama.cpp, with native VoxCPM2 GGUF support on CPU / Metal / CUDA / Vulkan.

1. Download GGUF weights from HuggingFace | ModelScope — you need one BaseLM (F16 or Q8_0) + the Acoustic file. Q8_0 halves the download with negligible quality loss.

2. Build

git clone https://github.com/tc-mb/llama.cpp-omni.git && cd llama.cpp-omni
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build --target voxcpm2-cli -j

CMake auto-detects Metal (macOS) or CUDA (Linux with NVIDIA GPU).

3. Run

# Basic TTS
./build/bin/voxcpm2-cli \
    -t "Hello, this is VoxCPM2 running through llama.cpp-omni." \
    -o output.wav VoxCPM2-BaseLM-Q8_0.gguf VoxCPM2-Acoustic-F16.gguf

# Voice cloning (reference audio)
./build/bin/voxcpm2-cli \
    -t "Cloned voice." -r speaker.wav -o clone.wav \
    VoxCPM2-BaseLM-Q8_0.gguf VoxCPM2-Acoustic-F16.gguf

# Ultimate cloning (reference audio + transcript)
./build/bin/voxcpm2-cli \
    -t "Target text." --prompt-wav speaker.wav --prompt-text "transcript of speaker.wav" \
    -o clone.wav VoxCPM2-BaseLM-Q8_0.gguf VoxCPM2-Acoustic-F16.gguf

RTF ~1.76 (Q8_0) on Apple M4 Pro / Metal. Key flags: --cfg (guidance scale), --timesteps (CFM steps), --seed, --temperature, --stream. See the llama.cpp-omni repo and GGUF weights page for full details.

Full parameter reference, multi-scenario examples, and voice cloning tips → Quick Start Guide | Usage Guide | Cookbook

📦 Models & Versions

VoxCPM2 is built on a tokenizer-free, diffusion autoregressive paradigm. The model operates entirely in the latent space of AudioVAE V2, following a four-stage pipeline: LocEnc → TSLM → RALM → LocDiT, enabling rich expressiveness and 48kHz native audio output.

For full architectural details, VoxCPM2-specific upgrades, and a model comparison table, see the Architecture Design.

📊 Performance

VoxCPM2 achieves state-of-the-art or comparable results on public zero-shot and controllable TTS benchmarks.

Seed-TTS-eval

Seed-TTS-eval WER(⬇)&SIM(⬆) Results (click to expand)

CV3-eval

CV3-eval Multilingual WER/CER(⬇) Results (click to expand)

MiniMax-Multilingual-Test

Minimax-MLS-test WER(⬇) Results (click to expand)

Minimax-MLS-test SIM(⬆) Results (click to expand)

Internal 30-Language ASR Benchmark

We additionally run an internal multilingual intelligibility benchmark with 30 languages × 500 samples. ASR transcription is evaluated via Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite API.

Internal 30-Language ASR Benchmark (click to expand)

InstructTTSEval

Instruction-Guided Voice Design Results (click to expand)

⚙️ Fine-tuning

VoxCPM supports both full fine-tuning (SFT) and LoRA fine-tuning. With as little as 5–10 minutes of audio, you can adapt to a specific speaker, language, or domain.

# LoRA fine-tuning (parameter-efficient, recommended)
python scripts/train_voxcpm_finetune.py \
    --config_path conf/voxcpm_v2/voxcpm_finetune_lora.yaml

# Full fine-tuning
python scripts/train_voxcpm_finetune.py \
    --config_path conf/voxcpm_v2/voxcpm_finetune_all.yaml

# WebUI for training & inference
python lora_ft_webui.py   # then open http://localhost:7860

Full guide → Fine-tuning Guide (data preparation, configuration, training, LoRA hot-swapping, FAQ)

📚 Documentation

Full documentation: voxcpm.readthedocs.io

🌟 Ecosystem & Community

See the full Ecosystem in the docs. Community projects are not officially maintained by OpenBMB. Built something cool? Open an issue or PR to add it!

⚠️ Risks and Limitations

• Potential for Misuse: VoxCPM's voice cloning can generate highly realistic synthetic speech. It is strictly forbidden to use VoxCPM for impersonation, fraud, or disinformation. We strongly recommend clearly marking any AI-generated content.
• Controllable Generation Stability: Voice Design and Controllable Voice Cloning results can vary between runs — you may try to generate 1~3 times to obtain the desired voice or style. We are actively working on improving controllability consistency.
• Language Coverage: VoxCPM2 officially supports 30 languages. For languages not on the list, you are welcome to test directly or try fine-tuning on your own data. We plan to expand language coverage in future releases.
• Usage: This model is released under the Apache-2.0 license. For production deployments, we recommend conducting thorough testing and safety evaluation tailored to your use case.

📖 Citation

If you find VoxCPM helpful, please consider citing our work and starring ⭐ the repository!

@article{zhou2026voxcpm2,
  title   = {VoxCPM2 Technical Report},
  author  = {Zhou, Yixuan  and Zeng, Guoyang and Liu, Xin and Li, Xiang and Yu, Renjie and Gui, Jiancheng and Wu, Jiaheng and Wang, Ziyang and Shen, Xudong and Ye, Runchuan  and Zhang, Zhisheng and Zhou, Jiuyang and Bai, Bingsong and Sun, Weiyue and Deng, Mengyuan and Shi, Qundong and Wu, Zhiyong and Liu, Zhiyuan},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.06928},
  year    = {2026},
}

@article{zhou2025voxcpm,
  title = {Voxcpm: Tokenizer-free TTS for context-aware speech generation and true-to-life voice cloning},
  author = {Zhou, Yixuan and Zeng, Guoyang and Liu, Xin and Li, Xiang and Yu, Renjie and Wang, Ziyang and Ye, Runchuan and Sun, Weiyue and Gui, Jiancheng and Li, Kehan and Wu, Zhiyong and Liu, Zhiyuan},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.24650},
  year = {2025}
}

📄 License

VoxCPM model weights and code are open-sourced under the Apache-2.0 license.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• DiTAR for the diffusion autoregressive backbone
• MiniCPM-4 for the language model foundation
• CosyVoice for the Flow Matching-based LocDiT implementation
• DAC for the Audio VAE backbone
• Our community users for trying VoxCPM, reporting issues, sharing ideas, and contributing—your support helps the project keep getting better

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