Edge TTS Text To Speech

Edge TTS Text To Speech

Turns text into spoken audio in a small Gradio page you can open in a browser or run on your own computer. For anyone who wants quick text-to-speech with no install.

Made by innoai on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: Edge TTS Text To Speech is a small Hugging Face Space that converts text into speech through a Gradio page. The repository holds only app.py, requirements.txt and a README, so the whole app is one Python file. You can use it in a browser with nothing to install.

Who it suits: It suits anyone who wants to hear a piece of text read aloud, and developers who want a short Gradio example of a text-to-speech page.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Content creation | Writers and video makers | Hear a script read aloud while drafting | Paste a short script and play the audio
Education | Teachers and learners | Listen to a passage instead of reading it | Type a sentence and listen to it
Software | Developers | Read app.py as a small text-to-speech example | Download the Space and run it locally

If you need a full audio editor or custom voice training, you can skip it, since the source describes neither.

Where to use it:

• A web browser, on the Space's page on Hugging Face
• A local copy of the files, run on Python 3.10.20 under Windows, macOS or Linux

Use case | Who | What they get back
Hear a text read aloud | Anyone | Spoken audio made from the text they type
Draft a voice-over | Creators | A quick audio version of a script
Study the code | Developers | One short app.py to read and change

How to set it up:

• A web browser, which is all the online page needs
• Python 3.10.20, for a local copy
• The Python packages listed in requirements.txt

1. Open the Space's page on Hugging Face to use it online. Nothing needs installing.
2. For a local copy, install the Hugging Face hub package and download the Space's files.
3. Move into the downloaded folder.
4. Install Gradio 5.25.2, then the packages from requirements.txt.
5. Start the app with python app.py.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download innoai/Edge-TTS-Text-to-Speech --repo-type space --local-dir Edge-TTS-Text-to-Speech
cd Edge-TTS-Text-to-Speech
pip install gradio==5.25.2
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

How to use it: Open the page, or the one your local copy starts, type or paste some text and run the conversion. The audio then plays or downloads from the same page. The source lists no voices or settings, so the controls are whatever the page shows.

Example: Paste a short paragraph of text into the page and start the conversion. The page returns a spoken version of that paragraph as audio you can play.

For newcomers and experts: Open the Space page, type one sentence and press the button that makes the audio. That is the whole workflow, and nothing needs setting up.

The app is built with Gradio 5.25.2 on Python 3.10.20 and runs on basic CPU hardware at Hugging Face, so it does not need a GPU. The README gives no notes on voices, languages or limits, so read app.py for what it supports.

You type or paste some text
app.py takes the text in the Gradio page
The text is converted to speech
The page plays the audio back

Good to know: The README is only a configuration header, so the details of voices and text length are not documented.

• License: GPL-2
• Cost to run: none named
• Data it reaches: the text you enter

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 1,312
• Built with: gradio
• License: gpl-2.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/innoai/Edge-TTS-Text-to-Speech
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/innoai/Edge-TTS-Text-to-Speech/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.