MyShell

weights

open(eight per-language .pth checkpoints on the Hub, ungated)

data

closed(no statement of what the released checkpoints were trained on)

code

open(training scripts in the repository (train.sh, preprocess_text.py))

license

MIT(code and every checkpoint)

MeloTTS is MIT-licensed, code and checkpoints alike, and the repository includes the scripts to train a voice on your own data. What the released voices were trained on is not stated, so they cannot be rebuilt.

• https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=myshell-ai&search=MeloTTS&limit=100 recorded 2026-09-27

  Family listing: eight myshell-ai/MeloTTS-* checkpoints tagged "license:mit", the newest MeloTTS-English-v3 created 2024-04-17.

• https://huggingface.co/api/models/myshell-ai/MeloTTS-English recorded 2026-09-27

  Hub record: "gated":false and checkpoint.pth in the file list.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS/HEAD/docs/training.md recorded 2026-09-27

  Training doc: "To train a TTS model, we need to prepare the audio files and a metadata file."; "bash train.sh <path/to/config.json> <num_of_gpus>".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS/HEAD/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-27

  LICENSE body: "Copyright (c) 2024 MyShell.ai" followed by the MIT permission text.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "This library is under MIT License, which means it is free for both commercial and non-commercial use."

Hugging Face downloads summed over the per-language checkpoints, about half of them the English voice.

• https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=myshell-ai&search=MeloTTS&limit=100 recorded 2026-09-27

  Trailing-30-day downloads: MeloTTS-English 263,685, English-v3 62,843, Korean 62,528, Japanese 54,079, Chinese 37,345, Spanish 14,047, French 8,055.

A light, practical synthesizer for fixed voices. It clones no voices and publishes no quality results, and listeners have not rated it on the public arena, so it sits well below Kokoro.

• https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard recorded 2026-09-27

  The 91-row leaderboard has no MeloTTS entry.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "MeloTTS is a **high-quality multi-lingual** text-to-speech library"; "Fast enough for `CPU real-time inference`."