# Chatterbox

Turns the written lines into speech.

Model id: `chatterbox`
Type: Voice
Made by: Resemble AI
Inputs: Text
Updated: Oct 12, 2026

## Pricing

| Setting | MiniAPI | fal | Difference |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| any | $0.0275 / 1K chars | $0.025 | +10% |

You are not charged for a job that fails.

## Parameters

| Name | Required | Values | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `text` | Yes | text |  | The words to speak. |
| `voice` | No | text | english | Which voice speaks. |
| `custom_audio_language` | No | english, arabic, danish, german, greek, spanish, finnish, french, hebrew, hindi, italian, japanese, korean, malay, dutch, norwegian, polish, portuguese, russian, swedish, swahili, turkish, chinese |  | If using a custom audio URL, specify the language of the audio here. Ignored if voice is not a custom url. |
| `exaggeration` | No | 0.25 to 2 | 0.5 | Controls speech expressiveness and emotional intensity (0.25-2.0). 0.5 is neutral, higher values increase expressiveness. Extreme values may be unstable. |
| `temperature` | No | 0.05 to 2 | 0.8 | Controls randomness and variation in generation (0.05-2.0). Higher values create more varied speech patterns. |
| `cfg_scale` | No | 0 to 1 | 0.5 | How closely to follow the prompt. Higher follows it more literally. |
| `seed` | No | integer |  | The same seed with the same settings gives a similar result. Leave it out for a random one. |

## Quickstart

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.minicut.ai/v1/queue/chatterbox" \
  -H "Authorization: Key $MINIAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"Hello from MiniAPI."}'
```

```json
{
  "request_id": "0192f3a4-5b6c-7d8e-9f01-23456789abcd",
  "status": "IN_QUEUE",
  "queue_position": 0,
  "status_url": "https://api.minicut.ai/v1/queue/chatterbox/requests/0192f3a4-5b6c-7d8e-9f01-23456789abcd/status",
  "response_url": "https://api.minicut.ai/v1/queue/chatterbox/requests/0192f3a4-5b6c-7d8e-9f01-23456789abcd",
  "cancel_url": "https://api.minicut.ai/v1/queue/chatterbox/requests/0192f3a4-5b6c-7d8e-9f01-23456789abcd/cancel",
  "price": "0.000523",
  "currency": "USD"
}
```

Page: https://api.minicut.ai/models/chatterbox
API reference: https://api.minicut.ai/docs/api