---
title: "audio.cpp: C++ inference engine on ggml that runs local audio models"
description: "A C++ inference engine built on ggml that runs local audio models for speech synthesis and recognition, voice cloning and conversion, voice activity detection and music. For developers running…"
url: "https://gearlist.build/tools/audio-cpp/"
id: "audio-cpp"
category: "Agent tools"
official_url: "https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp"
source_url: "https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp"
source_checked: "2026-11-06"
added: "2026-11-06"
image: "https://gearlist.build/og/tools/audio-cpp.png"
---

# audio.cpp

A C++ inference engine built on ggml that runs local audio models for speech synthesis and recognition, voice cloning and conversion, voice activity detection and music.

- Official link: https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp
- Group: [Agent tools](https://gearlist.build/category/agent-tools/), as Markdown at https://gearlist.build/category/agent-tools.md
- Added to Gearlist: 6 November 2026
- For: Developers running speech, voice or music models on their own Windows, Linux or Mac machine from a CLI, server or web UI.
- Access and use: Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Ubuntu and macOS are on GitHub Releases. On macOS, brew tap 0xShug0/audio-cpp, brew trust 0xShug0/audio-cpp, then brew install audio-cpp. Or build from source with CMake. Runs locally with no account. Model packages download from Hugging Face or ModelScope, and Hugging Face requests can carry your HF_TOKEN. audiocpp_server --ui --ui-management serves a web UI at http://127.0.0.1:8080 that can download models and take uploads. Model weights keep their own licences and some bar commercial use; docs/model_licenses.md lists them. The LICENSE file is Apache-2.0 (copyright ShugoAI LLC); GitHub shows NOASSERTION.
- Gearlist id: `audio-cpp`, for the MCP tool get_gear at https://gearlist.build/mcp

## What we checked

- Last checked: 6 November 2026
- Source read: https://github.com/0xShug0/audio.cpp
- How it was checked: Official documentation and licence reviewed; not installed or independently tested

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