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Bark TTS Review 2026 — Open-Source Expressive Voice with Laughter and Music
Bark by Suno AI generates speech with laughter, sighs, music, and emotion using text tokens. The most expressive open-source TTS in 2026. Free, MIT license.
In inglese
Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model from Suno. It runs locally from Python or the command line and can generate speech, music, ambient audio, simple sound effects, laughter, sighs, and cries from text prompts.
It supports multiple languages and more than 100 speaker presets. Bark is intended for research and demonstrations, may deviate from prompts, generally produces about 13 seconds of audio by default, and does not support custom voice cloning. Suno provides the code and checkpoints under the MIT License; running it requires suitable local hardware or a third-party hosted service.
Features
- Generates speech, music, background noise, and simple sound effects from text
- Produces nonverbal sounds such as laughter, sighs, cries, and gasps
- Supports multiple languages with automatic language detection
- Includes 100+ speaker presets across supported languages
- Supports long-form generation through a provided notebook
- Runs with Python, Transformers, or the command line
- MIT License permits commercial use
- Supports CPU and GPU inference with smaller model options
Use cases
- Create spoken audio from text prompts
- Generate multilingual narration with preset voices
- Prototype sound effects and ambient audio
- Produce short musical or lyrical audio samples
- Experiment with generative audio in research notebooks
- Run local text-to-audio inference in applications
Pros
Cons
Capabilities
- Text to speech — “Bark is Suno's open-source text-to-speech+ model.” source
- Not: Voice cloning — “Bark tries to match the tone, pitch, emotion and prosody of a given preset, but does not currently support custom voice cloning.” source
- Makes music — “Bark can generate all types of audio, and, in principle, doesn't see a difference between speech and music.” source
- Sound effects — “It can therefore generalize to arbitrary instructions beyond speech such as music lyrics, sound effects or other non-speech sounds.” source
- Many languages — “Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects.” source
- Commercial use — “The model also attempts to preserve music, ambient noise, etc.” source
Get it
Pricing
- Starting price
- $4/user/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-26
Free
Free
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
- $4 per user/month
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
Enterprise
- Starting at $21 per user/month
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month