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From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject:

chatterbox-turbo-8bit

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 2f2e21aSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text to speech model with 626M parameters. Safetensors weights, 708 MB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

626M params708MBchatterbox-turbo-8bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams626MSize708 MBFormatssafetensorsTasktext to speechLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
# manifest sha256 237540327223… · 708 MB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./chatterbox-turbo-8bit mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bitLast check: 2026-11-15 05:03 UTC
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Overview

Size
708 MB
Weights
706 MB (safetensors)
Parameters
626M
Formats
safetensors
Task
text to speech
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
11, each with a sha256
Publisher
mlx-community
Added
2026-11-15
Section
alt.freeweights.speech
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Original release from the publisher.

Base model: ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo

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Publisher at the pinned commit→You

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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:

TagDescription
[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

Files

11 files · 708 MBWeights 706 MB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.52 KB11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361
README.md2.01 KB4a72806403721bd124f7960ca40b2b28a01593d63178df89c53c40e1a21c8361
added_tokens.json418 B72e4ab6acb0d9309ac3df4b526ae5fd80a2da5bc5ab7bb02d85096a374f69193
conds.safetensors165 KBdf9ad2c54848027d94cf01f9fc0ed22bc5d3165df6e6a85c903c1124b8a78a4a
config.json2.56 KBcb2d9e9bcc2db2c3204220b7443b7132df7678a48238551c159715a51c68fa4f
merges.txt456 KB1ce1664773c50f3e0cc8842619a93edc4624525b728b188a9e0be33b7726adc5
model.safetensors706 MBcbfe447b04d11bb2d877f1305c37945ca109ffcf74a982a533e4baa40f273ba2
model.safetensors.index.json252 KB12aa0e85bc93c0ab8aa2d9e2a4d8ddd7e9dcf9b7cfcd1a94eb35bb96ccdb1549
special_tokens_map.json470 B92ba8063bf40aa163eadebbfe0de07c2aebe44cf0d4a9e8726580b0781fd2640
tokenizer_config.json3.88 KBbca16a2ac1ddbd78b8d6228f0031884cc74b6ea54b967d6f6d2ebae9ccde23e6
vocab.json999 KBf6bd25a65e4e63ca31360e9fb11c7e4f9a391a78385d640acd814092dd6eee4f
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
2f2e21a038 pinned now2026-11-15 05:03 UTC11 files · 708 MB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
# manifest sha256 237540327223… · 708 MB · 11 files
$ fw verify ./chatterbox-turbo-8bit mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json --dir ./chatterbox-turbo-8bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./chatterbox-turbo-8bit ./mlx-community__chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit --revision 2f2e21a03863f86a1274d1060dcc188e7cde77e1 --local-dir ./chatterbox-turbo-8bit
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License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
Listing
Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15
Text in
README.md
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4a72806403721bd124f7960ca40b2b28a01593d63178df89c53c40e1a21c8361
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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject: chatterbox-turbo-8bitDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 2f2e21aSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
Pinned commit
2f2e21a03863f86a1274d1060dcc188e7cde77e1
Manifest
chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
237540327223e9887727f6226a144c21598a4d85cf0f362cc95d9b2521b6fe50
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-15 05:03 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

Model tree

Parent

ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo · this model is a quantization of it

No model in the catalog names this one as its parent.

Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. chatterbox-turbo-8bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
Source
huggingface.co/mlx-community/chatterbox-turbo-8bit

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