OpenMOSS · Voice

MOSS TTS Local v1.5

Commercial use permittedApache License 2.0

The larger of the two OpenMOSS entries here. Upstream it is MOSS-TTS-Local-Transformer-v1.5, a 4B model. The project README states explicitly that the whole MOSS-TTS family is Apache-2.0. No acceptable-use policy, consent clause or output terms were found for any of it.

The licence

Summarized from the linked source documents, last checked 25 August 2026. Every claim links to its source; anything unconfirmed is marked unconfirmed.

Apache License 2.0

Commercial use permitted

Apache-2.0. Commercial use is permitted, with no revenue cap and no research-only carve-out. Keep the copyright and licence notices when you redistribute the weights.

What about the audio you generate?

Apache-2.0 says nothing about generated output and asserts no rights over it. As far as this licence goes, the audio you make is yours. That does not clear it of claims from other sources.

Correction to the shipped catalog: The shipped catalog says "Unknown". The MOSS-TTS project README states that "Models in MOSS-TTS Family are licensed under the Apache License 2.0".

Specs

Transcribed from the shipped catalog, audiocpp_models_catalog.json — that file is authoritative if a number here disagrees with it.

Vendor
OpenMOSS
Catalog id
audiocpp-moss-tts-local
audio.cpp loader family
moss_tts_local
Can do
Text to speech
Weights file
MOSS-TTS-Local-v1.5-GGUF/moss-tts-local-v1.5-q8_0.gguf
Account needed to download
No
Max clip length
60s
Sample rate
44.1kHz mono
Approx. VRAM
8.6 GB
In the picker by default
No — opt in from Settings
Run end-to-end here
No — catalogued, not tested here

Getting it

There is no per-model install. One native binary runs all of these, so getting a model is a download of its weights and nothing else — no virtualenv, no torch pin, no CUDA wheel to match against your driver.

From the CLI
soundbox model install audiocpp
soundbox pull audiocpp-moss-tts-local
  • The binary is fetched from audio.cpp's GitHub releases the first time you ask for it and cached under your own data directory. Soundbox ships no native binaries and vendors none.
  • Weights land in <models dir>/audiocpp/audiocpp-moss-tts-local/ rather than in the shared Hugging Face cache, so a download stays scoped to the model you asked for.
  • This one is opt-in: switch it on in the Models page's “Enable more models” section before it appears in the picker.

Worth knowing

  • ~8.6 GB of VRAM.
  • Opt-in and untested here.

Sources

Primary sources: the model's own repository, the project it came from, and the conversion audio.cpp actually downloads. Never invented — an entry with nothing findable says so instead.

Licence details on these pages are summaries of the linked source documents, last checked 25 August 2026. They are not legal advice, and Soundbox is not affiliated with any model's authors — weights download from Hugging Face under the user's own account and terms. Company and model names identify whose work it is, and belong to their owners. The linked licence text is authoritative; commercial use should be checked against it, per model, before anything ships.