Chatterbox is a family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI. It supports speech generation, voice cloning, and multilingual synthesis, with models targeting different performance and hardware requirements.
The family includes Chatterbox Multilingual V3 for speech synthesis across more than 20 languages, Chatterbox-Turbo for lower-latency English generation, and the smaller Chatterbox-Nano for resource-constrained and CPU-based deployments. Turbo and Nano also understand paralinguistic tags such as laughs, coughs, and chuckles.
Generated audio incorporates Resemble AI’s PerTh neural watermarking technology, which is designed to remain detectable after common audio processing and compression.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Generate natural-sounding speech from text.
- Clone voices from reference audio and preserve speaker characteristics across languages.
- Supports multilingual speech synthesis across more than 20 languages.
- Offers Turbo and Nano models for lower-latency and resource-constrained deployments.
- Supports paralinguistic tags and embeds neural watermarks in generated audio.
Website: github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
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Developer: Resemble AI
License: MIT License
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