Chatterbox TTS

gardnr wrote: post #2

Previously, on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145564

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Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by xnx » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

You can run it for free here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ResembleAI/Chatterbox

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by pinter69 » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

gardnr wrote: post #2

Previously, on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145564

I did a quick google search before positing and only found a reference in a comment. But, I searched for the link to the GitHub.

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by tomhow » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:45 PM UTC

gardnr wrote: post #2

Previously, on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44172134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44145564

Thanks for posting this but it's conventional to only post links to past submissions if they had significant discussion, which none of these did.

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by abraxas » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:51 PM UTC

Are these things good enough to narrate a book convincingly or does the voice lose coherence after a few paragraphs being spoken?

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by Mizza » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

Demos here: https://resemble-ai.github.io/chatterbox_demopage/ (not mine)

This is a good release if they're not too cherry picked!

I say this every time it comes up, and it's not as sexy to work on, but in my experiments voice AI is really held back by transcription, not TTS. Unless that's changed recently.

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by pinter69 » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:54 PM UTC

abraxas wrote: post #7

Are these things good enough to narrate a book convincingly or does the voice lose coherence after a few paragraphs being spoken?

I consult a company in the space (not resemble) and I can definitely say it can narrate a book

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by pinter69 » Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #8

Demos here: https://resemble-ai.github.io/chatterbox_demopage/ (not mine) This is a good release if they're not too cherry picked! I say this every time it comes up, and it's not as sexy to work on, but in my experiments voice AI is really held back by transcription, not TTS. Unless that's changed recently.

Right you are. I've used speechmatics, they do a decent jon with transcription