Medium
Speed
Excellent
Quality
Yes
Cloning
5
Languages
About Zonos
Zonos by Zyphra is a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model with advanced emotion and style control. It supports voice cloning from 5-30 seconds of reference audio and can modulate the emotional tone of generated speech. Choose from emotions like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust to create highly expressive and emotionally nuanced audio.
Key Features
Emotion Control
Control speech emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, and neutral.
Voice Cloning
Clone any voice from 5-30 seconds of reference audio with high fidelity.
Expressive Speech
1.6B parameters produce highly expressive speech with nuanced emotional delivery.
Multilingual
Supports English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German.
Use Cases
Emotionally expressive content creation
Game character voices with emotions
Audiobook narration with mood
Interactive voice experiences
Frequently Asked Questions
Zonos is a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model from Zyphra. It specializes in expressive speech generation with emotion control and voice cloning capabilities.
Yes, Zonos is fully Apache 2.0 licensed - both code and model weights. It can be used freely in commercial applications.
Zonos supports 7 emotion states: neutral, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. You can control the emotional tone of any generated speech.
Provide 5-30 seconds of reference audio. Zonos extracts speaker characteristics and can then generate new speech in that voice with any of the supported emotions.
Both offer style/emotion control with voice cloning. Zonos has more emotion options (7 vs 9 tone styles) and uses a more modern architecture. OpenVoice has tone styles like friendly, cheerful, whispering. Choose based on your specific emotion/style needs.
Zonos requires 8GB or more of VRAM for its 1.6B parameter model. A GPU with at least 10GB is recommended for comfortable operation with voice cloning.
Technical Specs
- Generation Speed Medium
- Output Quality Excellent
- Voice Cloning Supported
- Languages 5
- GPU VRAM 8GB+
- Credits/1000 chars 50