MLX-Audio

MLX-Audio is a speech library built on Apple’s MLX framework and optimized for Apple Silicon machines (M-series Macs). It focuses on text-to-speech and speech-to-speech workflows, with APIs and a command-line interface that make it easy to generate high-quality audio from text. Because it uses MLX and targets Apple Silicon, inference is fast and can take advantage of hardware acceleration and quantization for efficient on-device performance. The project provides a straightforward CLI (mlx_audio.tts.generate) as well as a Python API for programmatic generation of audio, including parameters for voice choice, speed, language hints, output format, and sample rate. It includes examples such as audiobook generation to demonstrate long-form synthesis and joined audio segments. On top of that, MLX-Audio offers a modern web interface powered by FastAPI, with real-time waveform and 3D visualizations, file upload, and audio management.