Model · Voice and speech

Chatterbox

A free, downloadable family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI that read text aloud in 23 languages and can copy a voice from a short clip. Every file carries a hidden watermark. Needs technical setup.

Go to Chatterbox’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Fully open
Weights and code downloadable under a standard open licence
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Licence: MIT (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))
Licence stated as MIT on the repository page, with a LICENSE file.
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
Follows from the MIT licence.
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Cost: Free option: Free to download; free demos on Hugging Face. Resemble AI sells a separate hosted TTS service.
Plans below.
How you use it: On your own computer, Through another service
pip install chatterbox-tts (Python 3.11). Runs on CUDA, CPU or Apple MPS. Demos on Hugging Face under ResembleAI.
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Skill needed: Technical
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Made by: Resemble AI
Repository does not state a country.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, read my text aloud (main use)
A voice or speech, a copy of my own voice

text to audioaudio to audio

Zero-shot voice cloning from a reference clip of about 10 seconds.

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Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

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Rights and safety

Watermark: Invisible watermark
Every file includes Resemble AI's Perth imperceptible watermark, said to survive MP3 compression and editing; a detector is included.
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Real faces and voices: Copies a real voice (reference clip clone), no consent step
Any reference clip can be used; only a disclaimer ('Don't use this model to do bad things'), no consent step.
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Where you can run it

Hugging Face

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