VoiceStudio passes 70,000 stars as a fully-local ElevenLabs alternative

VoiceStudio, the open-source voice studio by developer Palash Debnath, has passed 70,000 GitHub stars while pitching itself directly as a local replacement for ElevenLabs. The desktop app does zero-shot voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, real-time dictation, transcription, and audiobook creation, claiming 646 languages, with no accounts and no per-character billing. It recently moved from a Tauri shell to Electron (0.5.3 was the last Tauri release) and now offers a local REST API, an OpenAI-compatible audio endpoint, an MCP server, and agent skills. The app is AGPL-3.0, but there is a catch worth knowing: the default OmniVoice model weights are CC-BY-NC, so anything commercial needs a different engine or license. Hardware costs are real too, with large models wanting a decent GPU or Apple Silicon.

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