# OmniVoice

5 Hacker News commenters recommended OmniVoice and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Text-to-speech model people recommend for fast, high-quality speech, with voice cloning and self-hosted use.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast inference and low latency (2 comments): "generates high-quality speech with superior inference speed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613468)) "tts (omnivoice) take no more then 400-450 ms total" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742775))
- High-quality speech output (2 comments): "generates high-quality speech with superior inference speed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613468)) "but the reason is .... quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392353))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ElevenLabs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/elevenlabs.md): 59 recommend
- [Kokoro TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kokoro-tts.md): 59 recommend
- [Pocket TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pocket-tts.md): 41 recommend
- [Qwen3-TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-tts.md): 41 recommend
- [Kitten TTS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kitten-tts.md): 33 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "OmniVoice", https://hackerapproved.com/p/omnivoice/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).