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How would you say does Chatterbox compare to it if you have experience?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"}, {"id": 744857840, "item_id": 46553615, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553615", "by": "iLoveOncall", "date": "2026-01-09", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Chatterbox-TTS has a MUCH MUCH better output quality though", "excerpt": "Chatterbox-TTS has a MUCH MUCH better output quality though, the quality of the output from Sopro TTS (based on the video embedded on GitHub) is absolutely terrible and completely unusable for any serious application, while Chatterbox has incredible outputs. 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