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Production-minded open TTS from a commercial voice company - MIT license, built-in watermarking, and a fast Turbo variant, with Resemble's paid API as the scale-up path.

Among the 46 text-to-speech tools we track, Chatterbox has the 18th-widest language coverage.

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Facts verified Jul 20, 2026Website →

What we know about Chatterbox

Chatterbox is a text-to-speech apis platform: production-minded open TTS from a commercial voice company - MIT license, built-in watermarking, and a fast Turbo variant, with Resemble's paid API as the scale-up path. This profile tracks what we have verified about Chatterbox, each fact linked to a primary source and dated.

Chatterbox does not publish a public per-minute rate we have been able to verify, so the price figure here stays blank until we can confirm one. We would rather show nothing than a guessed number; if you have a current Chatterbox quote, it is the fastest way for us to close that gap.

On capabilities, Chatterbox covers instant voice cloning, emotion / style controls, and self-host / on-prem option. Each of those is verified against Chatterbox's own docs or dashboard, not marketing copy.

In total we track 11 verified facts for Chatterbox today, and add coverage as the ingestion pass revisits it. Where a number is a vendor claim rather than our own measurement, it is labeled as such on the Chatterbox fact sheet below, and each row links the primary source it came from so you can check our work.

Whether Chatterbox is the right call depends on your use case more than any single spec, which is why the head-to-head verdicts below score it per scenario rather than crowning one overall winner. Use the fact sheet for the raw numbers, and the matchups for how Chatterbox actually fares against the platforms buyers most often weigh it against.

Fact sheet

Capabilities
Capabilities facts
Instant voice cloning✓ YesJul 20
Languages supported23 languagesJul 20
Emotion / style controls✓ YesJul 20
Compliance & trust
Compliance & trust facts
Self-host / on-prem option✓ YesJul 20
Model weights licenseMITJul 20
Build experience
Build experience facts
Official SDKsPyTorch (pip `chatterbox-tts`)Jul 20
Commercial
Commercial facts
Model size (parameters)500M (Chatterbox / Multilingual V3), 350M (Chatterbox-Turbo)Jul 20
Hardware to self-hostCUDA GPU, CPU, or Apple MPS supportedJul 20
Hosted API availableYesJul 20
Project maintenance statusactiveJul 20
GitHub stars25,600 starsJul 20

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