Text-to-Speech
Safetensors
MLX
English
mlx-audio
chatterbox_turbo
speech
speech generation
voice cloning
tts
8-bit precision
Instructions to use mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- MLX
How to use mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit with MLX:
# Download the model from the Hub pip install huggingface_hub[hf_xet] huggingface-cli download --local-dir chatterbox-turbo-8bit mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- Atomic Chat
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Download README.md from mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit: direct link, hf CLI and curl.
- Browser
- Download file 2.01 kB
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https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit/resolve/main/README.md
- Command line
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hf download hf://mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit/README.md
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curl -L -o README.md https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit/resolve/main/README.md
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metadata
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
base_model:
- ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
library_name: mlx-audio
tags:
- text-to-speech
- speech
- speech generation
- voice cloning
- mlx
- tts
mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
This model was converted to MLX format from ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo using mlx-audio version 0.2.8.
Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.
Use with mlx
pip install -U mlx-audio
Voice Cloning:
mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit --text "Oh, that's hilarious! [chuckle] Um anyway, we do have a new model in store. It's the SkyNet T-800 series and it's got basically everything. Including AI integration with ChatGPT and all that jazz. Would you like me to get some prices for you?" --ref_audio path_to_file.wav --play
Emotion Control
Chatterbox supports expressive event tags that can be inserted directly into your text to add natural vocal expressions:
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
[clear throat] |
Throat clearing sound |
[sigh] |
Sighing expression |
[shush] |
Shushing sound |
[cough] |
Coughing sound |
[groan] |
Groaning expression |
[sniff] |
Sniffing sound |
[gasp] |
Gasping expression |
[chuckle] |
Light chuckling |
[laugh] |
Laughter |
mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit --text "[sigh] I can't believe it's Monday again. [groan] But hey, [clear throat] let's make the best of it!" --play
Default Voice:
mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit --text "Oh, that's hilarious! [chuckle] Um anyway, we do have a new model in store. It's the SkyNet T-800 series and it's got basically everything. Including AI integration with ChatGPT and all that jazz. Would you like me to get some prices for you?" --play