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Chatterbox

Chatterbox — Resemble AI's open-source TTS family: expressive text-to-speech and voice cloning, multilingual V3, low-latency Turbo and tiny Nano models, MIT

★ 27.1k stars⑂ 3.6k forksMITupdated 2026-07
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// project facts

Project facts

Chatterbox is an open-source audio project by resemble-ai (resemble-ai/chatterbox on GitHub). It has 27,079 GitHub stars and 3,645 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 21 July 2026.

GitHub stars
27,079
Forks
3,645
License
MIT
Last updated on GitHub
21 July 2026
Category
Audio
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Full install guide
Official site
Demo page
// how it works

How it works

  1. Install the package

    Per the README: pip install chatterbox-tts (developed and tested on Python 3.11); or clone and pip install -e . from source.

  2. Load a model

    Pick the family member for your job — Multilingual V3 for languages and cloning, Turbo for low-latency English agents, Nano for CPU/on-device.

  3. Generate or clone

    Run the example scripts (example_tts.py, example_vc.py for voice conversion) or the bundled Gradio apps to synthesise speech from text plus a reference voice.

// features

Why people love it

Three models, three budgets

Multilingual V3 (0.5B, many languages), Turbo (350M, one-step decoder for low latency) and Nano (110M, CPU-friendly) cover server to on-device.

Voice cloning and conversion

Clone a voice from reference audio for TTS, or convert one voice to another with the included VC examples.

Paralinguistic tags in Turbo

Native [laugh], [cough], [chuckle] and similar tags add human texture to generated speech.

MIT licensed

The full MIT licence — embed it in commercial products without a separate agreement, unlike custom-licence TTS releases.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Install from PyPI

    The README install.

    pip install chatterbox-tts
  2. Install from source

    The README alternative, in a fresh conda env if you like.

    git clone https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox.git
    cd chatterbox
    pip install -e .
  3. Try an example

    Example scripts for TTS and voice conversion ship at the repo root.

    python example_tts.py
    python example_vc.py
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who makes Chatterbox?

Resemble AI (resemble-ai/chatterbox on GitHub), the voice AI company; Chatterbox is their open-source TTS family.

Is Chatterbox free?

Yes — MIT licensed, including commercial use. Only clone voices you have the right to use.

Which model should I pick?

Multilingual V3 for language coverage and cloning quality, Turbo for low-latency English voice agents, Nano when memory and CPU are the constraint — the README lays out exactly this split.

How does it compare to a well-known alternative?

Against Fish Speech (also on LibreAI), Chatterbox is MIT-licensed and lighter to embed, with a purpose-built low-latency/CPU line; Fish Speech is the larger platform-grade system under a custom community licence. Against XTTS, Chatterbox is newer, actively released and commercially simpler.

How do I get started?

pip install chatterbox-tts, then run example_tts.py — or open the Gradio TTS app in the repo.

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