# chatterbox-fast — moved to its own repository

The chatterbox-fast streaming TTS engine now lives at:

> **https://gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/chatterbox-fast** — MIT, open-source (`v0.1.0`)

Extracted from this workspace on 2026-06-02. Unlike the other entries under
`stacks/` (thin compose+conf wrappers around upstream images), chatterbox-fast is
**authored software with a test suite** — so it gets its own versioned, CI'd repo
following the sister-repo pattern (task-board / vor / asset-engine / …). The new
repo owns the code, the self-contained Dockerfile, the tests, and three
public-domain LibriVox starter voices.

## Deployed service

The live service on **irv-ml1:8197** (catalog entry `chatterbox-fast`, status
`ready`) currently runs the original devnen-based image from before the extraction.
Migrating it to the self-contained image from the new repo is an optional
follow-up — note that image needs an `HF_TOKEN` at runtime (the Chatterbox-Turbo
model is public + MIT, but the `chatterbox-tts` package requires a token to
download it; the legacy devnen image sidesteps this).

## Catalog

The fleet catalog entry stays here in
[`docs/asset-engine/services.yaml`](../../docs/asset-engine/services.yaml) — it's
fleet-wide (consumed by asset-engine), not chatterbox-fast-specific.
