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# IX Voice

**Neural voice synthesis — local, private, yours**

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## What is IX Voice?

IX Voice is a local neural text-to-speech and voice cloning system built on Inference-X. Your voice data never leaves your device.

## Features

- **Text-to-speech** — high-quality synthesis from any text
- **Voice cloning** — clone any voice from 5 seconds of audio
- **OpenAI TTS API compatible** — drop-in replacement
- **30+ languages** — multilingual synthesis
- **No cloud** — 100% local processing

## Quick start

```bash
# Basic TTS
./ix-voice speak "Hello, world!" --voice en-female-01

# Clone a voice
./ix-voice clone speaker.wav --name my-voice
./ix-voice speak "Custom voice" --voice my-voice

# API server (OpenAI compatible)
./ix-voice --serve 8181
```

## Supported languages

Arabic · Chinese · Dutch · English · French · German · Hindi · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Polish · Portuguese · Russian · Spanish · Swedish · Turkish · Vietnamese · and more

## Status

Alpha — basic TTS working, voice cloning in development.

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*Part of the [Inference-X community](https://git.inference-x.com/inference-x-community)*