VoiceVox

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VoiceVox is an offline TTS engine developed for Japanese speech synthesis. It supports a wide range of voice characters and runs on CPU without requiring a GPU.

Installation

This guide uses VoiceVox Engine version 0.25.1. Steps may differ slightly for other versions.

Step 1 - Download VoiceVox Engine

Step 2 - Extract the Downloaded File

Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded file to a folder of your choice.

The extracted folder structure will look like this:

voicevox_engine-windows-cpu-0.25.1\
└── windows-cpu\
    ├── run.exe
    ├── resources\
    └── ...

Step 3 - Run VoiceVox

To start VoiceVox, navigate to the windows-cpu folder and double-click run.exe.

voicevox_engine-windows-cpu-0.25.1\windows-cpu\run.exe

Integrating with VNTranslator

After VoiceVox server is running, follow these steps to connect it with VNTranslator:

  • Go to Settings -> Extensions -> Text to Speech

  • Scroll to the VoiceVox settings section

  • Enter the Host and Port of your running VoiceVox server. By default, these are already set to:

    • Host: http://localhost

    • Port: 50021

  • Enter the Resource Path - The path to the resources folder inside your extracted VoiceVox Engine folder. For example: path\to\voicevox_engine-windows-cpu-0.25.1\windows-cpu\resources

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The Resource Path is used to display voice character avatars and play audio samples directly within VNTranslator. If left empty, avatars and audio previews will not be available.

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