rishiskhare / parrot
A free, offline, private AI text-to-speech desktop app built on Rust 🦜
Why this job: says: text to speech; topics: text-to-speech
What it does
- Private by design. your text is processed locally and never sent anywhere
- Lightweight. ~115 MB model, minimal memory footprint, Rust-powered backend
- Works in any app. reads selected text from browsers, editors, PDFs, terminals, anywhere
- Streaming playback. audio starts playing before the full text has been synthesized
- Free forever. no subscription, no API key, no account required
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 13 days ago
- Stars
- 179
- +3 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- 3 systems
- Mac, Windows, Linux
- Latest version
- v26.10.1
- Released 12 days ago
- Built with
- Rust
- 56% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 2
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 83% closed
- 1 still open
- Pull requests
- 4 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 5
- 5 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v26.10.1
- Mac1 file, 13 downloads
- Windows4 files, 126 downloads
- Linux6 files, 64 downloads
Languages
- Rust 56%
- TypeScript 41%
- Nix 1%
- CSS 1%
Topics
- accessibility
- cross-platform
- kokoro-tts
- rust
- tauri-v2
- text-to-speech
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits76
- Forks19
- Watching3
- Stars in 28 days+20
- CreatedFeb 22, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026