chatterbox: Text-to-Speech Using the 'Chatterbox' Engine

A native R 'torch' port of the 'Chatterbox' text-to-speech engine <https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox>. Provides speech synthesis with voice cloning; model weights are downloaded from 'HuggingFace' <https://huggingface.co/> via the 'hfhub' package.

Version: 0.2.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: torch (≥ 0.17.0), tuneR, jsonlite, hfhub, safetensors (≥ 0.1.1)
Suggests: tinytest
Published: 2026-06-25
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.chatterbox (may not be active yet)
Author: Troy Hernandez ORCID iD [aut, cre], cornball.ai [cph], Resemble AI [cph] (Chatterbox model architecture and weights (MIT license))
Maintainer: Troy Hernandez <troy at cornball.ai>
BugReports: https://github.com/cornball-ai/chatterbox/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/cornball-ai/chatterbox
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: chatterbox results

Documentation:

Reference manual: chatterbox.html , chatterbox.pdf

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Package source: chatterbox_0.2.1.tar.gz
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