PaddleSpeech
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Plans and prices
From PaddleSpeech's own pricing page, checked 13 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| PaddleSpeech | Free | Apache-2.0 licensed toolkit · requires PaddlePaddle · installation recommends Linux with Python >=3.8 |
The facts
Each one read from PaddleSpeech's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Audience
- The project describes its intended uses as industrial applications and academic research, including training, inference, testing, and deployment.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Award
- The README states that PaddleSpeech won the NAACL 2022 Best Demo Award.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Chinese frontend
- Its rule-based Chinese frontend includes text normalization and grapheme-to-phoneme processing, including polyphone and tone sandhi handling.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Commercial use
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- The repository includes server examples for ASR, TTS, and audio classification, as well as streaming ASR and TTS servers.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- wav,pcmchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Installation
- The project recommends Linux and Python 3.8 or later; it also lists Windows and Mac OS X support.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The README links to AI Studio demos and examples, and documents a Hugging Face Spaces TTS demo.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- Users can try models through its command-line interface or Python, and the project provides server and streaming server options.checked 13 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository states that PaddleSpeech is provided under the Apache-2.0 License.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Limit
- The README says its English-to-Chinese speech translation tool requires precompiled Kaldi tools and is supported for use on Ubuntu only.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Models and datasets
- The toolkit lists mainstream models and datasets including LibriSpeech, LJSpeech, AIShell, and CSMSC.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Other audio tasks
- The toolkit includes speaker verification, keyword spotting, audio classification, and speech translation.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Product
- PaddleSpeech is an open-source toolkit on the PaddlePaddle platform for speech and audio tasks.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PaddleSpeech is an open-source toolkit for speech and audio tasks built on the PaddlePaddle platform.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The README lists gcc >= 4.8.5, PaddlePaddle, and Python >= 3.8 as dependencies.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Speech recognition
- It provides automatic speech recognition, including streaming ASR with punctuation restoration.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Speech synthesis
- It provides text-to-speech synthesis, including a streaming TTS system and Chinese text frontend.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Speech translation limit
- The documented speech translation tool translates English to Chinese and its CLI experience is supported only on Ubuntu.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project invites users to submit questions in Discussions and bug reports in Issues.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Supported operating systems
- The README lists Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX as supported operating systems and recommends Linux.checked 13 Oct 2026
- Voice cloning
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- windows,macos,linux,apichecked 20 Sep 2026
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