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Chatterbox has been benchmarked against leading closed-source systems like ElevenLabs, and is consistently preferred in side-by-side evaluations.
Whether you’re working on memes, videos, games, or AI agents, Chatterbox brings your content to life. It’s also the first open source TTS model to support emotion exaggeration control, a powerful feature that makes your voices stand out. Try it now on our Hugging Face Gradio app.
Key Details
- SoTA zeroshot TTS
- 0.5B Llama backbone
- Unique exaggeration/intensity control
- Ultra-stable with alignment-informed inference
- Trained on 0.5M hours of cleaned data
- Watermarked outputs
- Easy voice conversion script
- Outperforms ElevenLabs
Tips
- General Use (TTS and Voice Agents):
- The default settings (
exaggeration=0.5
,cfg_weight=0.5
) work well for most prompts. -
If the reference speaker has a fast speaking style, lowering
cfg_weight
to around0.3
can improve pacing. -
Expressive or Dramatic Speech:
- Try lower
cfg_weight
values (e.g.~0.3
) and increaseexaggeration
to around0.7
or higher. - Higher
exaggeration
tends to speed up speech; reducingcfg_weight
helps compensate with slower, more deliberate pacing.