Production-Grade Open Source

Chatterbox Multilingual

Clone Voices in 5 Seconds Across 23 Languages

Open-source TTS with instant voice cloning, emotion control, and built-in watermarking. Trained on 500K+ hours of data. MIT licensed and free forever.

5s Voice Clone
23 Languages
Emotion Control
MIT License
EN
ZH
ES
FR
DE
JA
KO
IT
RU
PT
AR
HI
✨ 23 languages supported out of the box

Try Chatterbox Multilingual Now

Experience zero-shot voice cloning across 23 languages with emotion control

Note: The demo is hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. If it's sleeping, it may take 10-20 seconds to wake up. Upload a 5-second reference audio and try voice cloning with emotion control across 23 languages.

23 Languages Out of the Box

Chatterbox Multilingual supports 23 languages covering over 5 billion native speakers worldwide. From English to Mandarin Chinese, Spanish to Arabic, Japanese to Swahili—synthesize natural speech and clone voices across diverse linguistic families without additional training or fine-tuning.

Each language benefits from the same zero-shot cloning capability, emotion control, and production-quality synthesis. Whether you're building global applications, localizing content, or creating multilingual voice assistants, Chatterbox provides consistent quality across all supported languages.

EN
English
English
ZH
Chinese
中文
ES
Spanish
Español
FR
French
Français
DE
German
Deutsch
JA
Japanese
日本語
KO
Korean
한국어
IT
Italian
Italiano
RU
Russian
Русский
PT
Portuguese
Português
AR
Arabic
العربية
HI
Hindi
हिन्दी
PL
Polish
Polski
TR
Turkish
Türkçe
NL
Dutch
Nederlands
SV
Swedish
Svenska
DA
Danish
Dansk
FI
Finnish
Suomi
NO
Norwegian
Norsk
EL
Greek
Ελληνικά
HE
Hebrew
עברית
MS
Malay
Bahasa
SW
Swahili
Kiswahili

Why Chatterbox Multilingual?

Production-grade features that set it apart

Instant 5-Second Voice Cloning

Clone any voice with just 5 seconds of reference audio—no training, no fine-tuning, no complex setup. Chatterbox's zero-shot architecture instantly captures vocal characteristics including tone, pitch, timbre, speaking rate, and prosodic patterns.

Unlike traditional TTS systems requiring hours of training data, Chatterbox extracts essential voice features from minimal audio samples, making professional voice cloning accessible to everyone. Perfect for content creators, developers, and businesses needing rapid voice customization.

Advanced Emotion Control

The first open-source TTS model to support granular emotion exaggeration control. Dynamically adjust emotional intensity from subtle to dramatic while preserving natural voice characteristics and authentic prosody across all 23 supported languages.

Whether you need enthusiastic podcast narration, somber documentary voicing, or excited gaming character dialogue, Chatterbox adapts emotional expression to match your content's mood. This breakthrough capability brings commercial-grade emotional nuance to open-source TTS.

Perth Neural Watermarking

Every audio file generated by Chatterbox includes Resemble AI's Perth Watermarker—imperceptible neural watermarks embedded below human perceptual thresholds. These audio fingerprints survive MP3 compression, format conversion, and common audio editing operations while maintaining near-100% detection accuracy.

In an era of deepfake concerns, Perth watermarking enables reliable content authentication and provenance tracking. Audio generated by Chatterbox can be verified and traced back to its source, supporting responsible AI practices and combating synthetic media misuse—all without degrading audio quality.

Outperforms Commercial TTS

In blind A/B listening tests conducted on Podonos, 63.75% of users preferred Chatterbox's audio quality over ElevenLabs—a leading commercial TTS solution. This remarkable result demonstrates that open-source voice synthesis has reached and exceeded the quality bar set by proprietary systems.

Chatterbox delivers production-ready quality suitable for professional applications including audiobook narration, commercial voiceovers, video content, and customer-facing products. With over 1 million downloads on Hugging Face and 11,000+ GitHub stars, the community validates Chatterbox as enterprise-grade technology.

Faster-Than-Realtime Inference

Chatterbox achieves faster-than-realtime synthesis through alignment-informed generation—generating audio faster than the actual playback duration. This performance enables truly interactive applications where latency matters: conversational AI, live assistants, real-time translation, and dynamic gaming dialogue.

Unlike traditional TTS systems that introduce noticeable delays, Chatterbox responds instantly to user input, creating seamless voice interactions. The optimized inference pipeline maintains this speed across all 23 languages without sacrificing audio quality or naturalness.

True Open Source Freedom

Released under the permissive MIT license, Chatterbox grants developers complete freedom to use, modify, and distribute without royalties, attribution requirements beyond license notice, or usage restrictions. Deploy commercially, integrate into proprietary products, or fork and customize—all without licensing fees.

The MIT license eliminates the per-character costs and rate limits typical of commercial TTS APIs, making Chatterbox ideal for high-volume applications, startups managing costs, and enterprises requiring deployment flexibility. With transparent code, active community support, and continuous improvements, Chatterbox represents the future of accessible, production-grade voice synthesis.

Technical Architecture

Built on cutting-edge technology for production-grade performance

Model Specifications

Parameters500M (Llama backbone)
Training Data500,000+ hours
Languages23 supported
Inference SpeedFaster than realtime
LicenseMIT Open Source

Key Capabilities

  • Zero-shot multilingual voice cloning
  • Emotion exaggeration control
  • Alignment-informed generation
  • Neural watermarking (Perth)
  • Optimized for production deployment

Benchmark Results

63.75%
User Preference vs ElevenLabs
(Blind A/B Test on Podonos)
1M+
Hugging Face Downloads
(Within weeks of launch)
11K+
GitHub Stars
(Active community)

Production-Ready Use Cases

Deploy Chatterbox Multilingual for global voice applications

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Content Creation & Media Production

Generate professional voiceovers for YouTube videos, podcasts, audiobooks, and documentaries in 23 languages. Clone narrator voices for series continuity, create character voices for storytelling, or produce multilingual versions of content with consistent quality. Emotion control adds dramatic range to narration without additional recording sessions.

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Conversational AI & Voice Assistants

Build multilingual voice assistants, chatbots, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems with natural, emotion-aware responses. Chatterbox's real-time inference enables fluid conversations without noticeable delays. Clone brand voices for consistent customer experiences, or create unique assistant personalities that adapt emotional tone to user context and conversation flow.

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Gaming, VR & Interactive Entertainment

Generate dynamic NPC dialogue, procedural voice content, and character voices for games and VR experiences. Real-time synthesis enables responsive in-game characters that adapt dialogue and emotion to player actions. Create diverse voice casts from minimal voice actor recordings, localize games into 23 languages without re-recording, and produce unlimited dialogue variations for replay value.

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Education & E-Learning Platforms

Create multilingual course content, training materials, and educational videos with natural instructor voices. Generate personalized learning experiences where voice narration adapts to student pace and comprehension. Produce language learning materials with native pronunciation across 23 languages, create accessible audio textbooks, or build interactive tutoring systems with voice feedback.

🎬

Localization & Dubbing Services

Localize films, TV shows, and video content for international markets while preserving original voice characteristics and emotional performances. Clone actor voices across languages, maintain character consistency in dubbed versions, and produce cost-effective multilingual content distribution. Emotion control ensures translated dialogue matches the original scene's dramatic intent and timing.

Accessibility & Assistive Technology

Build screen readers, text-to-speech tools, and assistive communication devices with natural voice output in 23 languages. Enable visually impaired users to consume digital content, create communication aids for speech disorders, or develop reading assistance tools for dyslexia. High-quality synthesis ensures accessibility technology sounds natural and dignified, not robotic or stigmatizing.

Get Started with Chatterbox

Clone your first voice in minutes with simple Python API

Quick Start

# Install Chatterbox
pip install chatterbox-tts

# Import and initialize
from chatterbox import Chatterbox

tts = Chatterbox()

# Clone voice and generate speech
audio = tts.synthesize(
  text="Hello, this is my cloned voice!",
  reference_audio="reference.wav",
  language="en",
  emotion="happy"
)

# Save output
audio.save("output.wav")

How Chatterbox Compares

See why developers choose Chatterbox Multilingual

FeatureChatterboxElevenLabsXTTS-v2OpenVoice
Languages2330+176
Clone Time5s5s6s~10s
Emotion Control
Watermarking
LicenseMITProprietaryApache 2.0MIT
CostFree$330/2M charsFreeFree
User Preference63.75%36.25%--

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MIT Licensed • Built by Resemble AI • 500M Parameters • 500K+ Hours Training Data