Model
Chatterbox
Chatterbox is an open-weight AI model, released in 2025, made for developers.
An open text-to-speech model family with zero-shot voice cloning in many languages.
Main jobs: Text to speech, Voice cloning. It is open source and free to use. You can use it on your own server, offline on your own machine and through an API.
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At a glance
- Type
- Model
- Released
- 2025
- Galaxy
- Voice & Music
- Open source
- Yes · MIT
- Source code
- github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox
- GitHub stars
- 26,535
- How you run it
- Self-host · Runs offline · API
- Made for
- Developers
- Website
- resemble-ai.github.io
What it can do
Text to speechmain jobunconfirmed
“Chatterbox is a family of state-of-the-art, open-source text-to-speech models by Resemble AI.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
Voice cloningmain jobunconfirmed
“All samples are zero-shot, with no finetuning on individual voices.”— resemble-ai.github.io, 2026-09-24
unconfirmedproposed by a machine, awaiting calibration
Alternatives
- ElevenLabsFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- CosyVoiceOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning
- F5-TTSOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning
- Fish SpeechOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning
- GPT-SoVITSOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- CapCut 剪映Free plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- DescriptFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Text to speech, Voice cloning; no code needed
- ChatTTSOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech
- RVCOpen source, freeAlso does: Voice cloning; no code needed
- WaveNetAlso does: Text to speech
- HeyGenFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Voice cloning; no code needed
- MoneyPrinterTurboOpen source, freeAlso does: Text to speech; no code needed
Connections
- Applies
- Voice Cloning
Questions
What is Chatterbox?
Chatterbox is an open-weight AI model, released in 2025, made for developers. An open text-to-speech model family with zero-shot voice cloning in many languages.
Is Chatterbox free?
Yes. Chatterbox is open source (MIT) and free to use.
Is Chatterbox open source?
Yes, under the MIT license. The source code is at https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox.
Can Chatterbox run locally?
Yes. Chatterbox can run offline on your own machine. It can also be self-hosted on your own server.
What can Chatterbox do?
Main jobs: Text to speech, Voice cloning.
What are open-source alternatives to Chatterbox?
Open-source ones: CosyVoice, F5-TTS, Fish Speech, GPT-SoVITS, ChatTTS, RVC and MoneyPrinterTurbo. Others: ElevenLabs, CapCut 剪映, Descript, WaveNet and HeyGen.
Sources
- github.com/resemble-ai/chatterboxchecked 2026-09-24
- resemble-ai.github.io/chatterbox_demopage/checked 2026-09-24