Commercial Use

[eren4434]

Hello everyone: can anyone pls tell me if I can use F5-tts for my youtube video and monetize it?
Thank you

[AaronZ345]

Not with the official pretrained F5-TTS weights if the video is monetized.

The repository code is MIT-licensed, but the project README separately states that the pretrained models are CC BY-NC because they were trained on Emilia. The official Hugging Face model card identifies that license as CC-BY-NC-4.0. A monetized YouTube video is a commercial use, so the non-commercial restriction applies even though the Python code itself is MIT.

A commercial path would be to use the MIT code with weights you trained independently on data you are licensed to use, after checking the licenses of every model component and vocoder in that pipeline. You also need permission for the reference voice. Otherwise, you would need separate permission from the owner of the pretrained weights.