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Chatterbox Text-to-Speech

AI Platform & Data Chatterbox TTS Hardened AMI

Chatterbox on Ubuntu 24.04 generates English speech from text on CPU, one sentence at a time, in the voice of a short sample you provide. Package 0.1.7 does not send the text or the voice sample to a third-party speech service.

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AMI release
0.1.7 (Chatterbox TTS)
Recommended
c7i.2xlarge
Storage
64 GiB+ encrypted gp3
Access
Session Manager or SSH
Released
Oct 25, 2026
Delivery
Amazon Machine Image in your own AWS account

Natural English speech from text, generated on CPU, one sentence at a time.

Speaks in the voice of a 6 to 8 second sample that you own or are allowed to use.

Recommended on c7i.2xlarge; t3.large works for evaluation but is slower. Private, token-protected service.

Quick start

Full guide →
  1. Subscribe
  2. Launch the instance
  3. Connect and run the walkthrough
  4. Open port 8094
  5. Keep the clips

What is on the image

This guide matches Marketplace package 0.1.7 (Chatterbox TTS). Check the listing for the version currently on offer.

  • Chatterbox Nano on CPU. One English sentence at a time.
  • A voice sample of 6 to 8 seconds that you own or are allowed to use.
  • A token-protected service. The access file and the first sentence are described in /opt/sushi/docs/README.md on the instance.
  • A walkthrough, /opt/sushi/docs/demo.sh.
  • Stored clips you should back up before you replace the instance.

The service is reached by forwarding port 8094.

c7i.2xlarge with at least 64 GiB of encrypted gp3 root storage and IMDSv2. The listing also shows t3.large for evaluation. It works, and it is slower. Leave inbound application ports closed. Session Manager does not need a key pair or an inbound rule.

Billing

The listing shows a software rate of USD 0.03 per hour for the listed instance types, including c7i.2xlarge and t3.large. Confirm the offer before you subscribe. EC2, EBS, and data transfer are billed separately.

Tutorial

Watch on YouTube.

Where to go next

Upstream project

Software Sushi packages this image and does not claim upstream or AWS endorsement. The image notes at /opt/sushi/docs/README.md describe this build. The listing does not name a separate upstream manual.

Last updated November 1, 2026 · Suggest an improvement