Chatterbox
Free open model that clones a voice in 23 languages.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Free cloning with commercial rights
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- License
- MIT
What’s good
- MIT license, clone from a short clip
- Every file gets an invisible watermark
- Can speak your cloned voice in other languages
Downsides
- Retired in August 2026; no updates or support
- No consent check beyond the watermark
- Command line setup
The details.
- Version
- Chatterbox Multilingual V3Released 2026-06
- Open source
- Yes, MIT
- Made by
- Resemble AI
- Website
- github.com
How it ranks.
- TTS Arena V2#29 · score 14682026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use chatterbox-tts Python package, mlx-audio (Mac).
- You need
- NVIDIA GPU or Apple Silicon Mac; Nano runs on 8 CPU cores
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns