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Developed by Resemble AI, Chatterbox is a production-grade TTS model released under the permissive MIT license. In recent blind listening tests, it was actually preferred over ElevenLabs by 63.75% of listeners, proving open-source models can compete with and even outperform proprietary giants.

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