Chatterbox

What Chatterbox does

Free, open source text to speech models from Resemble AI (MIT license) with voice cloning, 23+ languages, and tags like [laugh] and [cough] on the Turbo model. It is listed in our Voice & Dialogue category.

Pricing and free tier

Chatterbox is listed as free. Plans change often, so confirm on the official site before you pay.

Best use for beginner game devs

We rate Chatterbox 2/5 for beginners, which makes it better suited to experienced developers than to a first project. Free for commercial use, but you install it with Python and run it on your own computer. Try the online demo first.

Best for: Voicing lots of NPC lines for free on your own machine once you are comfortable running a Python script.

Alternatives to Chatterbox

• ElevenLabs (Freemium, beginner rating 5/5): Realistic AI voices for character dialogue, plus sound effect generation.
• Fish Audio (Freemium, beginner rating 4/5): Text to speech and voice cloning with a big library of expressive character voices.
• Murf AI (Freemium, beginner rating 4/5): Text to speech studio with many voices for narration and dialogue.
• Narakeet (pricing unknown, beginner rating 4/5): Turns scripts into voiceover audio files in many voices and languages.
• Uberduck (Freemium, beginner rating 4/5): AI voices and text to speech for characters, vocals and quick dialogue tests.

See every option on the Voice & Dialogue page.