Decision Workspace
piper-plus vs piper-plus-cli vs kittentts
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
47
piper-plus
experimentalv0.4.0
High-quality neural text-to-speech engine with 8-language support
43
piper-plus-cli
experimentalv0.4.0
CLI tool for Piper Plus neural text-to-speech synthesis
47
kittentts
experimentalv0.4.1
Rust port of KittenTTS — lightweight ONNX-based text-to-speech
Core Metrics
| piper-plus | piper-plus-cli | kittentts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 47 | 43 | 47 |
| Total Downloads | 180 | 80 | 1.1K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Last Updated | 22d ago | 22d ago | 32d ago |
| Age | 2m | 2m | 3m |
Health Breakdown
piper-plus
Maintenance
13
Quality
14
Community
7
Popularity
3
Documentation
10
piper-plus-cli
Maintenance
13
Quality
13
Community
5
Popularity
2
Documentation
10
kittentts
Maintenance
17
Quality
13
Community
3
Popularity
4
Documentation
10
Technical Details
| piper-plus | piper-plus-cli | kittentts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.4.0 | 0.4.0 | 0.4.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 20 | 6 | 27 |
| Crate Size | 249KB | 27KB | 95KB |
| Features | 13 | 0 | 6 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •piper-plus leads with a health score of 47/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •kittentts has the most downloads (1.1K), suggesting wider adoption.