Chatterbox TTS vs Pocket TTS
Chatterbox TTS
github.comPocket TTS
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| Figure | Chatterbox TTS | Pocket TTS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text-to-Speech Software | 9.0 (#9) | 8.6 (#46) |
| Spec score · Text-to-speech tools | 8.9 (#21) | 8.6 (#54) |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Export formats | WAV | WAV |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Languages | The README lists 23 supported languages for Chatterbox Multilingual. | The documented pretrained language models cover English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish. |
| Platforms | linux,macos,self_hosted | windows,macos,linux,api,self_hosted |
| Support | The README invites users to join the project’s Discord community. | The maker invites users to open issues or pull requests on GitHub and accepts contributions. |
| Voice cloning | Models can generate speech conditioned on a short reference audio clip. | Voice cloning accepts a WAV file as the voice input, and the project provides an export command to save voice state for faster loading. |
| What it does | Chatterbox is Resemble AI’s open-source family of text-to-speech and voice-cloning models. | Pocket TTS is a lightweight text-to-speech application designed to run efficiently on CPUs. |
Plans
Chatterbox TTS
- Chatterbox open-source modelsFree
- Voice AI Research (Chatterbox)Free
In their own words
Chatterbox TTS
Chatterbox TTS is a family of open-source text-to-speech models from Resemble AI. Its listed choices include Turbo, Nano, Multilingual V3, and dedicated single-language models. Turbo supports tags that can prompt reactions such as sighs, gasps, coughs, and laughter; Nano is intended for on-device or CPU use when memory and latency budgets are tight. The README lists 23 languages for Multilingual. The project supports voice cloning, audio input, batch processing, voice isolation, and WAV export. Generated audio carries Resemble AI’s PerTh watermark. The repository is MIT licensed, and its listed plan costs nothing for research and development. Resemble says it has stopped offering voice generation as a commercial product, while its models remain open and free for research and development. The README provides pip and source installation instructions and describes Python 3.11 on Debian 11, with CUDA, CPU, and MPS device options. Listed platforms are Linux, macOS, and self-hosted.
Pocket TTS
Pocket TTS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.