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chatterbox

Audio ResembleAI Text→speech 1 build Open weights 1.8M dl/mo

chatterbox is an open-weight audio or speech model from ResembleAI. chatterbox (BF16) weighs 10.7 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.

  • Chatterbox is a 0.5B parameter text-to-speech model developed by ResembleAI that supports 23 languages including English, Spanish, and Chinese.
  • It is licensed under the MIT license and features a Llama backbone with built-in watermarking for responsible AI use.

Summary of the ResembleAI/chatterbox model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byResembleAI
Released2025-04-24
VRAM10.7 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for chatterbox (BF16)

10.7 GBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBdoes not fit11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What ResembleAI says about chatterbox

Read the model card

Latest Release: Chatterbox Multilingual V3

Chatterbox Multilingual V3 is the latest general-purpose multilingual TTS model in the Chatterbox family. It keeps the same 0.5B model size while improving speaker similarity, reducing hallucinations, and producing more natural, conversational speech across languages.

V3 is designed for broad language coverage like V2, but with stronger stability and more expressive generation. It is the recommended multilingual model for users who want one voice cloning model that works across many languages. Try it in the Chatterbox Multilingual TTS V3 Space.

Alongside V3, we are releasing the Single Language Pack: dedicated finetunes for priority languages where tighter quality control, stronger language-specific behavior, and more specialized speech generation are valuable.

  • Broad Multilingual Coverage: Designed as the main general-purpose multilingual Chatterbox model, supporting wide language coverage similar to V2.
  • Single Language Pack: Dedicated single-language models provide stronger specialization and quality control where language- and regional-dialect-specific performance matters most.
  • More Consistent Speaker Similarity: Improves voice identity and accent preservation across languages, making cross-language voice cloning more stable and reliable.
  • Reduced Hallucination: V3 is optimized to reduce unwanted continuation, repetition, and off-prompt speech, especially in cases where earlier multilingual models were less stable.

Model Zoo

Choose the right Chatterbox model for your application.

ModelSizeLanguagesKey FeaturesBest ForDemo
Chatterbox Multilingual V3500M23+Improved speaker similarity, reduced hallucinations, more natural multilingual speechGlobal applications, localization, cross-language voice cloningDemo
Single Language Pack500M each6 dedicated finetunesLanguage- and region-specific quality controlPriority languages and dialect-sensitive applicationsDemos
Chatterbox500MEnglishCFG and exaggeration tuningGeneral zero-shot TTS with creative controlsDemo

09/04 🔥 Introducing Chatterbox Multilingual in 23 Languages!

We're excited to introduce Chatterbox and Chatterbox Multilingual, Resemble AI's production-grade open source TTS models. Chatterbox Multilingual supports Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Swahili, Turkish, Chinese out of the box. Licensed under MIT, Chatterbox has been benchmarked against leading closed-source systems like ElevenLabs, and is consistently preferred in side-by-side evaluations.

Whether you're working on memes, videos, games, or AI agents, Chatterbox brings your content to life. It's also the first open source TTS model to support emotion exaggeration control, a powerful feature that makes your voices stand out. Try it now on our Hugging Face Gradio app.

If you like the model but need to scale or tune it for higher accuracy, check out our competitively priced TTS service (link). It delivers reliable performance with ultra-low latency of sub 200ms—ideal for production use in agents, applications, or interactive media.

Key Details

  • Chatterbox Multilingual V3, a 0.5B general-purpose multilingual TTS model supporting 23 languages
  • Dedicated single-language finetunes for Chinese, LatAm Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Spain Spanish, Portugal Portuguese, and Hindi
  • SoTA zeroshot English TTS
  • 0.5B Llama backbone
  • Unique exaggeration/intensity control
  • Ultra-stable with alignment-informed inference
  • Trained on 0.5M hours of cleaned data
  • Watermarked outputs
  • Easy voice conversion script
  • Outperforms ElevenLabs

Tips

  • General Use (TTS and Voice Agents):

    • The default settings (exaggeration=0.5, cfg=0.5) work well for most prompts.
    • If the reference speaker has a fast speaking style, lowering cfg to around 0.3 can improve pacing.
  • Expressive or Dramatic Speech:

    • Try lower cfg values (e.g. ~0.3) and increase exaggeration to around 0.7 or higher.
    • Higher exaggeration tends to speed up speech; reducing cfg helps compensate with slower, more deliberate pacing.

Note: Ensure that the reference clip matches the specified language tag. Otherwise, language transfer outputs may inherit the accent of the reference clip’s language. To mitigate this, set the CFG weight to 0.

Installation

pip install chatterbox-tts

Usage

import torchaudio as ta
from chatterbox.tts import ChatterboxTTS

model = ChatterboxTTS.from_pretrained(device="cuda")

text = "Ezreal and Jinx teamed up with Ahri, Yasuo, and Teemo to take down the enemy's Nexus in an epic late-game pentakill."
wav = model.generate(text)
ta.save("test-1.wav", wav, model.sr)

# If you want to synthesize with a different voice, specify the audio prompt
AUDIO_PROMPT_PATH="YOUR_FILE.wav"
wav = model.generate(text, audio_prompt_path=AUDIO_PROMPT_PATH)
ta.save("test-2.wav", wav, model.sr)

Multilingual Quickstart

import torchaudio as ta
from chatterbox.mtl_tts import ChatterboxMultilingualTTS

multilingual_model = ChatterboxMultilingualTTS.from_pretrained(
    device="cuda",
    t3_model="v3",
)
# To use the legacy V2 multilingual checkpoint, omit t3_model or pass t3_model="v2".

french_text = "Bonjour, comment ça va? Ceci est le modèle de synthèse vocale multilingue Chatterbox, il prend en charge 23 langues."
wav_french

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.
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