Chatterbox Turbo Voice Cloning, Running Locally on Your Machine
Clone any voice from 5 seconds of audio in the Voice Creator Pro desktop app. One-time purchase, or start free in the cloud.
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Why Use Chatterbox Turbo for Voice Cloning
Chatterbox Turbo is an open-source, MIT-licensed voice cloning model by Resemble AI. It is a 0.5B-parameter model trained on 500k hours of speech, built for high-quality, expressive cloned speech with features that most free tools do not offer.
In blind listening tests, 63% of listeners preferred Chatterbox voice cloning over ElevenLabs.
5-Second Voice Cloning
Clone any voice from roughly 5 seconds of audio. No training or fine-tuning needed.
Paralinguistic Tags
Add [laughs], [sighs], [gasps], and other tags for natural, human-like speech.
Expressiveness Control
Adjust the exaggeration slider to control how expressive the cloned voice sounds.
Runs on Your Machine
No cloud round-trips. Chatterbox Turbo runs locally inside the desktop app with GPU acceleration and full privacy.
Get Started
How It Works
Get the desktop app
Download the Voice Creator Pro desktop app. One-time purchase, no subscription, yours forever.
Upload or record a voice sample
Provide a short audio clip (around 5 seconds) of the voice you want to clone. Use clear speech with minimal background noise and a single speaker. You can upload a file or record directly in the app.
Type your text and generate
Enter the text you want spoken in the cloned voice, then hit generate. Your cloned speech is ready in seconds.
Use Cases
Who Is Chatterbox Turbo For?
Content Creators
Add consistent voiceovers to YouTube videos, podcasts, or social media content without recording every take yourself.
Developers and Researchers
Prototype voice features, test TTS pipelines, or experiment with voice cloning in an open-source model you can inspect and modify.
Game and App Developers
Generate placeholder or final character dialogue from a single voice sample. Iterate on voice direction without hiring voice actors for every draft.
Accessibility
Create personalized synthetic voices for people who have lost their ability to speak, using recordings from before their voice changed.
Getting the Most Out of Chatterbox
Tips for Best Results
Use clean reference audio
Background noise, music, or room echo will bleed into the cloned voice. Record in a quiet space or pick a clip with clear, isolated speech.
Stick to around 5 seconds
Longer clips do not improve quality. A focused 5-second sample of natural speech gives Chatterbox everything it needs.
One speaker only
If your reference clip has multiple people talking, Chatterbox may blend them together. Use a clip with a single, consistent voice.
Adjust exaggeration for the context
Use lower exaggeration (0.2 to 0.4) for calm narration or professional voiceovers. Use higher values (0.6 to 1.0) for animated character dialogue or expressive reads.
Use paralinguistic tags sparingly
Tags like [laughs] and [sighs] are most effective when used occasionally. Overusing them can make the output sound unnatural.
Compare
Chatterbox Turbo vs Chatterbox Multilingual
Both are open-source models by Resemble AI, and both run in the Voice Creator Pro desktop app. Pick Turbo for English with paralinguistic tags, or Multilingual to clone one voice across 20+ languages.
| Turbo | Multilingual | |
|---|---|---|
| Languages | English | 20+ |
| Voice cloning | Yes | Yes |
| Paralinguistic tags | Yes | No |
| Exaggeration control | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | Expressive English voiceovers | One voice across languages |
Voice Creator Pro Cloud
No GPU? Run everything in the cloud instead.
Voice Creator Pro Cloud runs on our hardware, so there is nothing to install and no GPU needed. You get high quality models, voice cloning, emotional speech, and a commercial use license. The free plan includes 5,000 tokens every month, around 1 hour 45 minutes of text to speech with basic voices or 10 minutes of voice cloning in 600+ languages, no card required.
No GPU Required
Generation runs on our hardware, so it works on any laptop, tablet, or phone
600+ Languages
Text to speech across 600+ languages with OmniVoice
Voice Cloning Included
Clone a voice from a few seconds of audio, included in the free plan
Emotional Speech
13 emotions at 5 intensities with Qwen3-TTS
Voice Design from Text
Describe a voice in plain text and the AI creates it. No audio samples needed
Commercial License
Full rights to use generated audio in commercial projects
FAQ
Common Questions
Chatterbox Turbo is an open-source voice cloning model created by Resemble AI. It uses a zero-shot approach, meaning it can clone a voice from a single short audio sample without any training or fine-tuning. The model is designed for high-quality, expressive speech synthesis.
Chatterbox Turbo was developed by Resemble AI, a company focused on generative voice technology. They released it as an open-source model, which means anyone can use, inspect, and build on top of it.
Paralinguistic tags are special markers you can insert into your text to add non-verbal expressions to the generated speech. Chatterbox supports tags like [laughs], [sighs], and [gasps]. These make the output sound more natural and human compared to flat, monotone TTS.
About 5 seconds of clear audio works best. You can use clips up to 10 seconds, but longer samples do not necessarily improve quality. The most important factor is clean audio with minimal background noise.
The exaggeration parameter controls how expressive the generated speech sounds. A lower value produces more neutral, steady output. A higher value makes the voice more animated and emotionally varied. You can adjust it with a slider to find the right balance for your use case.
The model itself is open-source software released under the MIT license. In Voice Creator Pro it runs inside the desktop app, a one-time purchase with unlimited generations and no subscription. If you want to try voice cloning without buying anything, Voice Creator Pro Cloud has a free plan with 5,000 tokens every month, using its own cloning models.
The open-source Chatterbox Turbo model is primarily designed for English. For multilingual voice cloning, the Voice Creator Pro desktop app includes Chatterbox Multilingual, an upgraded version that supports 20+ languages.
Chatterbox Turbo stands out for its zero-shot cloning quality from very short audio samples and its support for paralinguistic tags. Many other models require longer reference audio or lack expressiveness controls. Chatterbox Turbo focuses on English, but Chatterbox Multilingual, available in the Voice Creator Pro desktop app, extends voice cloning to 20+ languages.
Yes. Voice Creator Pro Cloud runs in your browser, and its free plan covers around 10 minutes of voice cloning in 600+ languages or 1 hour 45 minutes of text to speech with basic voices every month, no card required. Chatterbox Turbo itself runs in the desktop app.