Verdict: If your app talks and you are paying a hosted text-to-speech API by the character, VoxCPM2 is the first open-source model that can credibly replace most of that spend. It is a 2-billion-parameter, Apache-2. 0 licensed model from OpenBMB that clones voices from a few seconds of audio, in...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/shaam_ai/voxcpm2-vs-elevenlabs-self-hosted-ai-voice-that-clones-designs-and-speaks-30-languages-2026-4cof)