--- title: "Chatterbox-Turbo" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/1c38668e-6fbd-427b-bcbb-bc430fae1c36" updated: "2026-11-13" --- # Chatterbox-Turbo > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Speaks English text aloud with a 350M-parameter model built for low-latency voice agents, and adds laughs and coughs through tags in the text. Suits developers who want quick, expressive speech with less GPU memory. Chatterbox-Turbo is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-13. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by ResembleAI ## About ### What it is Chatterbox-Turbo is an open-source text-to-speech model from Resemble AI, one of three models in the Chatterbox family. It has about 350 million parameters and speaks English. The maker cut the mel decoder from 10 steps to one, so it needs less compute and video memory than earlier models. ### Who it suits Developers who build voice agents, narration or other speech features and want expressive output, under the MIT license. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Voice products | Agent builders | Give a voice agent fast, natural speech | Call back a customer with a spoken reply | | Media | Content creators | Narrate scripts with laughs and coughs | Add a chuckle to a line | | Software | App developers | Add spoken output to an app | Read a message aloud | | Customer service | Support teams | Test a phone-style voice assistant | Prototype a billing call | Skip it if you need languages other than English, since the Multilingual model in the same family covers more than 23. ### Where to use it It runs in Python, and the card's example loads it on a CUDA GPU. - Python, with the chatterbox-tts package from pip - A computer with a CUDA GPU, as in the card's example - Windows, macOS or Linux, though the maker tested on Debian 11 with Python 3.11 | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Voice agents | Agent builders | Low-latency spoken replies | | Narration | Creators | Speech with tags marking laughs, coughs and chuckles | | App speech | Developers | Audio files made from text | ### How to set it up You need Python and the chatterbox-tts package. - Python 3.11 is what the maker used for development and testing - pip, to install the package - A GPU for the card's example, which loads the model with the cuda device 1. Install the chatterbox-tts package with pip. 2. Or install it from source in editable mode, which lets you change the code. 3. Download the model files with the hf command if you want them on disk. ```sh pip install chatterbox-tts ``` ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo ``` ### How to use it Import the Turbo class, load the model, then pass it text that may hold paralinguistic tags. The card begins its example like this. ```python import torchaudio as ta import torch from chatterbox.tts_turbo import ChatterboxTurboTTS model = ChatterboxTurboTTS.from_pretrained(device="cuda") ``` | Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | ChatterboxTurboTTS | Loads and runs the Turbo model | | from\_pretrained | Fetches the weights and puts them on the chosen device | | \[laugh\] | Tag that adds a laugh to the speech | | \[cough\] | Tag that adds a cough | | \[chuckle\] | Tag that adds a chuckle | ### Example You write a short English line for a phone call and place a chuckle tag in the middle. The model speaks the line as audio, and the chuckle lands where you put the tag. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new to text to speech, install the package, load the model and say one short sentence. Then add a tag to hear how it changes the delivery. If you know the field, Turbo uses a lean 350M design. The speech-token-to-mel decoder was distilled so generation takes one step instead of ten, while the maker says audio fidelity stays high. Tags are native to the model, which is built mainly for low-latency agents. Install chatterbox-tts → Load the Turbo model → Write text with optional tags → Generate speech → Save or play the audio ### Good to know The family also has Multilingual and the original Chatterbox, and the card says Multilingual offers zero-shot cloning. Use only voices you have the right to use. Model size in the Chatterbox family | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | Turbo | 350 M | | Multilingual | 500 M | | Chatterbox | 500 M | - License: MIT - Cost to run: free on your own machine, though the card also promotes a paid text-to-speech service from Resemble - Data it reaches: the text you give it and the model files on your computer, and nothing else the card names - Not for: languages other than English, since Turbo is English only ## README ````markdown # Chatterbox-Turbo Speaks English text aloud with a 350M-parameter model built for low-latency voice agents, and adds laughs and coughs through tags in the text. Suits developers who want quick, expressive speech with less GPU memory. Made by ResembleAI on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: Chatterbox-Turbo is an open-source text-to-speech model from Resemble AI, one of three models in the Chatterbox family. It has about 350 million parameters and speaks English. The maker cut the mel decoder from 10 steps to one, so it needs less compute and video memory than earlier models. Who it suits: Developers who build voice agents, narration or other speech features and want expressive output, under the MIT license. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Voice products | Agent builders | Give a voice agent fast, natural speech | Call back a customer with a spoken reply Media | Content creators | Narrate scripts with laughs and coughs | Add a chuckle to a line Software | App developers | Add spoken output to an app | Read a message aloud Customer service | Support teams | Test a phone-style voice assistant | Prototype a billing call ``` Skip it if you need languages other than English, since the Multilingual model in the same family covers more than 23. Where to use it: It runs in Python, and the card's example loads it on a CUDA GPU. - Python, with the chatterbox-tts package from pip - A computer with a CUDA GPU, as in the card's example - Windows, macOS or Linux, though the maker tested on Debian 11 with Python 3.11 ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Voice agents | Agent builders | Low-latency spoken replies Narration | Creators | Speech with tags marking laughs, coughs and chuckles App speech | Developers | Audio files made from text ``` How to set it up: You need Python and the chatterbox-tts package. - Python 3.11 is what the maker used for development and testing - pip, to install the package - A GPU for the card's example, which loads the model with the cuda device 1. Install the chatterbox-tts package with pip. 2. Or install it from source in editable mode, which lets you change the code. 3. Download the model files with the hf command if you want them on disk. ```sh pip install chatterbox-tts ``` ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo ``` How to use it: Import the Turbo class, load the model, then pass it text that may hold paralinguistic tags. The card begins its example like this. ```python import torchaudio as ta import torch from chatterbox.tts_turbo import ChatterboxTurboTTS model = ChatterboxTurboTTS.from_pretrained(device="cuda") ``` ```table Tool | What it does ChatterboxTurboTTS | Loads and runs the Turbo model from_pretrained | Fetches the weights and puts them on the chosen device [laugh] | Tag that adds a laugh to the speech [cough] | Tag that adds a cough [chuckle] | Tag that adds a chuckle ``` Example: You write a short English line for a phone call and place a chuckle tag in the middle. The model speaks the line as audio, and the chuckle lands where you put the tag. For newcomers and experts: If you are new to text to speech, install the package, load the model and say one short sentence. Then add a tag to hear how it changes the delivery. If you know the field, Turbo uses a lean 350M design. The speech-token-to-mel decoder was distilled so generation takes one step instead of ten, while the maker says audio fidelity stays high. Tags are native to the model, which is built mainly for low-latency agents. ```flow Install chatterbox-tts Load the Turbo model Write text with optional tags Generate speech Save or play the audio ``` Good to know: The family also has Multilingual and the original Chatterbox, and the card says Multilingual offers zero-shot cloning. Use only voices you have the right to use. ```chart Title: Model size in the Chatterbox family Turbo: 350 M Multilingual: 500 M Chatterbox: 500 M ``` - License: MIT - Cost to run: free on your own machine, though the card also promotes a paid text-to-speech service from Resemble - Data it reaches: the text you give it and the model files on your computer, and nothing else the card names - Not for: languages other than English, since Turbo is English only ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: text to speech - Downloads in the last 30 days: 0 - Likes: 709 - License: mit - Languages: en - Quantized versions: 22 - Fine-tunes: 13 - Tags: text-to-speech, speech, speech-generation, voice-cloning ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo - Files: https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo ``` Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 5 KB ``` ## Source [ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Chatterbox-Turbo (this page) | 0 | 709 | — | mit | 2025-12-15 | | [Chatterbox TTS](https://mindket.com/p/4681ce24-a293-418d-9c0e-991b1a7d6e7f) | 2,440,902 | 1,911 | — | mit | 2026-06-10 | | [AuK](https://mindket.com/p/d6e14e2c-53e7-43ce-a669-cbc6a8e6dbae) | 1,455 | 396 | — | mit | 2026-09-10 | | [Chatterbox-Nano](https://mindket.com/p/1e07a64c-7ebc-4f5a-b2e8-3742c21c8b61) | 0 | 49 | — | mit | 2026-07-21 | | [Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B by inclusionAI](https://mindket.com/p/f13d7a41-4e55-40ee-b52d-b5fd3d09578b) | 14,756 | 225 | 1.5B | mit | 2026-10-27 | | [Ming-3.0-tts-tiny](https://mindket.com/p/010986a0-d4b7-4da1-991e-23662a130085) | 9,080 | 61 | 9B | mit | 2026-10-27 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-13. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · Palmik · 2025-12-16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285722): ChatterBox Turbo – Open Weight TTS Model - [Bluesky · 猫国防 · 2025-12-20](https://bsky.app/profile/maoguofang.bsky.social/post/3mafgddy4oc26): Chatterbox Resemble AI 开发的三款开源文本转语音模型 huggingface.co/ResembleAI/c... - [Bluesky · デイリーHuggingFaceトレンド · 2025-12-22](https://bsky.app/profile/huggingfacetrends.bsky.social/post/3makz5mytgd2g): 今日のHuggingFaceトレンド ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo このリポジトリは、Resemble AIが開発したオープンソースのテキスト読み上げ(TTS)モデル群「Chatterbox」に関するものです。 特に、効率的な「Chatterbox-Turbo」モデルが中心で、低遅延な音声エージェントやナレーション、クリエイティブな用途に適しています。 - [Bluesky · デイリーHuggingFaceトレンド · 2025-12-20](https://bsky.app/profile/huggingfacetrends.bsky.social/post/3mafy2wsh7x2j): 今日のHuggingFaceトレンド ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo このリポジトリは、Resemble AIが開発したオープンソースのテキスト読み上げ(TTS)モデル群「Chatterbox」に関するものです。 特に、効率的な「Chatterbox-Turbo」モデルが中心で、低遅延な音声エージェントやナレーション、クリエイティブな用途に適しています。 - [Bluesky · デイリーHuggingFaceトレンド · 2025-12-18](https://bsky.app/profile/huggingfacetrends.bsky.social/post/3maaxcghrqe2s): 今日のHuggingFaceトレンド ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo このリポジトリは、Resemble AIが開発したオープンソースのテキスト読み上げ(TTS)モデル群「Chatterbox」に関するものです。 特に、効率的な「Chatterbox-Turbo」モデルが中心で、低遅延な音声エージェントやナレーション、クリエイティブな用途に適しています。 ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2025-12-15 - First published: 2025-12-02 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-13 - Something wrong? Tell us: https://mindket.com/takedown#ask ## Get it - [Open ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo) - [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/1c38668e-6fbd-427b-bcbb-bc430fae1c36) - [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/1c38668e-6fbd-427b-bcbb-bc430fae1c36)