MockingBird

Why we included this project

MockingBird clones a voice from a short sample and then synthesizes arbitrary speech in that voice, and it remains one of the most widely referenced open-source starting points for this kind of work. It follows the Real-Time Voice Cloning pipeline, reusing a pretrained encoder and vocoder so you only train the synthesizer, which keeps the setup lighter than building a full TTS stack from scratch. Mandarin is a particular strength, with the author testing against several Chinese datasets, and you get both a desktop toolbox for interactive experiments and a web server for remote calls. One honest caveat: the author has stepped back from active maintenance and points to a hosted successor, so treat this as a solid reference implementation and learning resource rather than a dependency for a production service without planning for maintenance.