chatterbox

0.2.1

Text-to-Speech Using the 'Chatterbox' Engine

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Overview

About

Maintained by Troy HernandezFirst published 2026-06-251 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("chatterbox", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("cornball-ai/chatterbox")

Development version from cornball-ai/chatterbox. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-chatterbox

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-chatterbox

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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OK2026-06-26
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Repository

GitHub ↗ cornball-ai/chatterbox

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (5)

torch tuneR jsonlite hfhub safetensors (>= 0.1.1)

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tinytest

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Troy Hernandez

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Release timeline

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0.2.1Latest
2026-06-25 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-25
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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