Open-source TTS model Chatterbox hits 27K stars as a free local ElevenLabs alternative

alex_verem · x · 2026-10-29

In his open-source-alternatives series, alexverem highlights Chatterbox by Resemble AI: a SoTA open-source TTS model for natural-sounding video, podcast, and voiceover narration that runs fully locally. The repo has 27.4K GitHub stars under MIT license, and the latest Chatterbox Multilingual V3 keeps the 0.5B size while improving speaker similarity, with voice conversion support included.

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