--- title: "Chatterbox TTS" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/4681ce24-a293-418d-9c0e-991b1a7d6e7f" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # Chatterbox TTS > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Resemble AI's open text-to-speech models, with zero-shot voice cloning and emotion exaggeration control. The latest multilingual version covers 23 languages at 0.5B parameters. Chatterbox TTS is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by ResembleAI ## About ### What it is Chatterbox is a family of open text-to-speech models from Resemble AI, released under the MIT license. It makes speech from text and can copy a voice from a short sample. The newest release is Chatterbox Multilingual V3, a 0.5B model for 23 languages. The card says it improves speaker similarity, cuts hallucinations and sounds more natural. The family also has a Single Language Pack of 6 dedicated models and the original English Chatterbox. ### Who it suits Developers and creators who want expressive speech for videos, games, apps or agents, and teams that need one voice to speak many languages. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Media | Video creators | Add narration and character voices | Voice a short film in a chosen style | | Games | Game developers | Give characters spoken lines | Generate dialogue with extra emotion | | Localization | Product teams | Speak one voice in many languages | Make the same message in several languages | Skip it if you cannot get permission to use the voice you want to copy. Only use faces, voices and recordings you have the right to use. ### Where to use it - A Python setup that follows the model card - The demo pages the makers list for each model, if you want to listen first - Windows, macOS or Linux with Python, to download the files | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Narration | Creators | Speech from text in a voice you choose | | Cross-language voice | Localization teams | A voice that keeps its identity and accent across languages | | Expressive reads | Game and media makers | Speech with more or less emotion, through the exaggeration control | ### How to set it up - Python and pip - Enough disk space for the model files, at about 500M parameters per model - A short recording of a voice you have the right to use, if you want cloning 1. Install the Hugging Face tools. 2. Download the model files. 3. Follow the model card for the code that loads the model and generates speech. ```bash pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download ResembleAI/chatterbox ``` ### How to use it Give the model your text, and optionally a short voice sample to copy. The original model also offers CFG and exaggeration settings to make the delivery calmer or more dramatic. | Model | Size | Languages | Best for | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Chatterbox Multilingual V3 | 500M | 23+ | Global apps and cross-language voice cloning | | Single Language Pack | 500M each | 6 dedicated finetunes | Priority languages and dialect-sensitive work | | Chatterbox | 500M | English | General zero-shot speech with creative controls | Languages per Chatterbox model | Label | Value | | --- | --- | | Chatterbox original | 1 languages | | Single Language Pack | 6 languages | | Multilingual V3 | 23 languages | ### Example You give the model a line of text and a short recording of your own voice. It speaks the line in a voice like yours, and you adjust the exaggeration setting to make it more lively. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new to speech models, start with the English model and plain text before you try cloning. Then move to the multilingual version. If you know the field, V3 keeps the 0.5B size of earlier versions and focuses on speaker similarity and stability. The card says it reduces repeated and off-prompt speech. Download the model files → Load the model in Python → Give it text and an optional voice sample → Receive speech ### Good to know - The makers say it was compared with closed systems such as ElevenLabs and often preferred, and these claims are theirs - The card calls it the first open source TTS model with emotion exaggeration control - The makers also mention a paid hosted service with latency under 200 ms - Hugging Face lists 40 quantized and 93 fine-tuned versions made by other people - License: MIT - Cost to run: none named for the open models - Data it reaches: the files you download, the text you give it and any voice samples you provide - Not for: copying a voice without the right to use it ## README ````markdown # Chatterbox TTS Resemble AI's open text-to-speech models, with zero-shot voice cloning and emotion exaggeration control. The latest multilingual version covers 23 languages at 0.5B parameters. 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 is a family of open text-to-speech models from Resemble AI, released under the MIT license. It makes speech from text and can copy a voice from a short sample. The newest release is Chatterbox Multilingual V3, a 0.5B model for 23 languages. The card says it improves speaker similarity, cuts hallucinations and sounds more natural. The family also has a Single Language Pack of 6 dedicated models and the original English Chatterbox. Who it suits: Developers and creators who want expressive speech for videos, games, apps or agents, and teams that need one voice to speak many languages. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Media | Video creators | Add narration and character voices | Voice a short film in a chosen style Games | Game developers | Give characters spoken lines | Generate dialogue with extra emotion Localization | Product teams | Speak one voice in many languages | Make the same message in several languages ``` Skip it if you cannot get permission to use the voice you want to copy. Only use faces, voices and recordings you have the right to use. Where to use it: - A Python setup that follows the model card - The demo pages the makers list for each model, if you want to listen first - Windows, macOS or Linux with Python, to download the files ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Narration | Creators | Speech from text in a voice you choose Cross-language voice | Localization teams | A voice that keeps its identity and accent across languages Expressive reads | Game and media makers | Speech with more or less emotion, through the exaggeration control ``` How to set it up: - Python and pip - Enough disk space for the model files, at about 500M parameters per model - A short recording of a voice you have the right to use, if you want cloning 1. Install the Hugging Face tools. 2. Download the model files. 3. Follow the model card for the code that loads the model and generates speech. ```bash pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download ResembleAI/chatterbox ``` How to use it: Give the model your text, and optionally a short voice sample to copy. The original model also offers CFG and exaggeration settings to make the delivery calmer or more dramatic. ```table Model | Size | Languages | Best for Chatterbox Multilingual V3 | 500M | 23+ | Global apps and cross-language voice cloning Single Language Pack | 500M each | 6 dedicated finetunes | Priority languages and dialect-sensitive work Chatterbox | 500M | English | General zero-shot speech with creative controls ``` ```chart Title: Languages per Chatterbox model Chatterbox original: 1 languages Single Language Pack: 6 languages Multilingual V3: 23 languages ``` Example: You give the model a line of text and a short recording of your own voice. It speaks the line in a voice like yours, and you adjust the exaggeration setting to make it more lively. For newcomers and experts: If you are new to speech models, start with the English model and plain text before you try cloning. Then move to the multilingual version. If you know the field, V3 keeps the 0.5B size of earlier versions and focuses on speaker similarity and stability. The card says it reduces repeated and off-prompt speech. ```flow Download the model files Load the model in Python Give it text and an optional voice sample Receive speech ``` Good to know: - The makers say it was compared with closed systems such as ElevenLabs and often preferred, and these claims are theirs - The card calls it the first open source TTS model with emotion exaggeration control - The makers also mention a paid hosted service with latency under 200 ms - Hugging Face lists 40 quantized and 93 fine-tuned versions made by other people - License: MIT - Cost to run: none named for the open models - Data it reaches: the files you download, the text you give it and any voice samples you provide - Not for: copying a voice without the right to use it ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: text to speech - Library: chatterbox - Downloads in the last 30 days: 2,440,902 - Likes: 1,911 - License: mit - Languages: ar, da, de, el, en, es, fi, fr - Quantized versions: 40 - Fine-tunes: 94 - Tags: chatterbox, text-to-speech, speech, speech-generation, voice-cloning, multilingual-tts ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox - Files: https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download ResembleAI/chatterbox ``` 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 on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox) ## 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 TTS (this page) | 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 | | [Chatterbox-Turbo](https://mindket.com/p/1c38668e-6fbd-427b-bcbb-bc430fae1c36) | 0 | 709 | — | mit | 2025-12-15 | | [Maya 2 Native](https://mindket.com/p/1c8868e5-58de-48eb-9c9b-a9de50e1f0f7) | 5,774 | 170 | 2.5B | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-03 | | [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 | 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 · maxloh · 2025-05-31](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144155): Chatterbox, Resemble AI's production-grade open source 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... - [Hacker News · andrewfromx · 2025-06-13](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44273259): Show HN: Automate final cut pro's XML language: Did you know the final cut pro xml import export is very powerful? Have you ever opened one of those xml files? https://github.com/andrewarrow/cutlass/blob/main/reference/p... That's a simple plus sign drawn with fcpxml shape language. But there's more\! Way more:… - [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。 - [Hacker News · RandomBK · 2025-08-03](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777452): Show HN: Open-source Voice Cloning at 16x real-time: Porting Chatterbox to vLLM: Chatterbox TTS from ResembleAI (https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox) is one of the most accessible and highest-quality Voice Cloning models available today. However, its implementation via HF Transformers left a lot of performance on the table. This is a pet project I've been building… - [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。 - [Hacker News · Tsarp · 2026-02-06](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915922): Show HN: Cbx – Local TTS CLI Wrapping Chatterbox ONNX (Single Rust Binary): I built cbx: a single-binary CLI for local/offline text-to-speech. It wraps Resemble AI’s Chatterbox ONNX models behind a Rust CLI (ONNX Runtime under the hood). Goal: “I want good TTS in a shell script” without Python envs / pip / venv juggling. Quick start: cbx speak --text "Hello from cbx."… - [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。 - [Hacker News · samagra14 · 2025-06-30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424730): Ask HN: What Inference Server do you use to host TTS Models?: All the examples I have are highly unoptimized - For eg, Modal Labs uses FastAPI - https://modal.com/docs/examples/chatterbox\_tts\\ BentoML also uses FastAPI like service - https://www.bentoml.com/blog/deploying-a-text-to-speech-application-with-bentoml\\ Even Chatterbox TTS has a very naive example… - [Hacker News · huskyr · 2025-11-10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882094): TTS still sucks: Yup, ElevenLabs stills rules pretty much in this space. Especially if you're looking for non-English models it's really hard to find anything good although the latest Chatterbox1 now supports 23 languages. 1: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox - [Hacker News · gnulinux · 2025-08-07](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819377): Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model: Imho chatterbox is the current open weight SOTA model in terms of quality: https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox - [Hacker News · vivzkestrel · 2025-07-15](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574353): Open-source framework for real-time AI voice: how does it compare to chatterbox TTS? https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox/ ## 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: 2026-06-10 - First published: 2025-04-24 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? 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