PowerBeef / Vocello
Vocello: a private voice studio for Apple Silicon. Write a script, pick or describe a voice, and generate speech locally on your Mac and iPhone. Native Swift and MLX, no Python, no cloud. Mac app and command line out now, iPhone beta on TestFlight. (Formerly QwenVoice.)
Why this job: topics: text-to-speech, tts, voice-cloning
What it does
Vocello is a voice studio for your Mac and iPhone. Write a script, pick one of nine voices or describe a new one, and Vocello speaks it with the Qwen3-TTS model running on your own Apple Silicon. A command line brings the same engine to scripts and AI agents.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 6 days ago
- Stars
- 388
- +1 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest version
- v3.0.0
- Released 16 days ago
- Built with
- Swift
- 54% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 82% closed
- 7 still open
- Pull requests
- 48 merged
- 3 waiting
- Releases
- 24
- 24 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Swift 54%
- Python 39%
- Shell 4%
- JavaScript 2%
Topics
- apple-silicon
- ios
- iphone
- macos
- mlx
- offline
- qwen
- qwenvoice
- swiftui
- text-to-speech
- tts
- vocello
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits2,916
- Forks37
- Watching5
- Stars in 28 days+13
- CreatedFeb 21, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026