Resemble AI just dropped Chatterbox Turbo and it's legitimately impressive. What it is: A fully open-source, MIT-licensed text-to-speech model that benchmarks ahead of ElevenLabs Turbo and Cartesia Sonic 3. Why you should care: - <150ms time-to-first-sound — fast enough for real-time applications, at least in English - Voice cloning from just 5 seconds of audio -- no lengthy training datasets needed - Paralinguistic tags — control laughs, pauses, breaths for natural human expression - MIT license — use it commercially, fork it, do whatever you want!! The model is designed to be transparent and auditable, which matters if you're building anything that needs to prove authenticity or pass compliance checks. GitHub repo: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox If you've been looking for a serious open-source alternative to the paid voice APIs, this is worth testing. The 5-second cloning alone makes it interesting for rapid prototyping. Anyone already running this locally? Curious about real-world latency and quality compared to the benchmarks. Share your ideas and results

Hey everyone, Thank you so much for your patience while we got this community ready to launch. It’s finally happening! 🎉 I’ve put together a short video explaining why I started this group and what it’s all about. I’m really excited to meet all of you — passionate, like-minded people working in the voice AI space. Our first meetup is next Friday, and it’ll be all about getting to know each other, hearing about your voice AI projects, and understanding what you’d like to learn on here. In the meantime, let’s start with introductions right here under this post 👇 Please share: - Who you are - What you’re building or working on - What you’d love to learn or explore within this community Can’t wait to see what everyone’s up to!