# Chatterbox · Text to Speech · Multilingual API

> Multilingual text-to-speech covering 23 languages, limited to 300 characters per request

Synthesizes speech in many languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Text is limited to 300 characters. `voice` sets the language, or a custom audio URL together with `custom_audio_language`. `exaggeration` ranges 0.25 to 2, and `cfg_scale` can be set to 0 for language transfer to reduce accent carryover.

- Model id: `chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual`
- Made by: Resemble AI
- Category: Text to Speech
- Output: audio
- Price: $0.025 / 1000 characters (cheapest run $0.025 (25 API credits))
- Run: `POST https://api.doitong.com/v1/run/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual`
- Quote: `POST https://api.doitong.com/v1/quote/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual`
- Docs page: https://doitong.com/developers/models/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual

## Pricing

Price: **$0.025 / 1000 characters**. Billed per character of `text` (the price is per 1000 characters).

The full example input below costs $0.002 = 2 API credits (50 characters × 25 API credits / 1000 characters).

Prices are the upstream price in USD, paid from the API balance in API credits (1000 API credits = 1 USD). `POST https://api.doitong.com/v1/quote/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual` with the same JSON body returns the exact price for that input; the quote is exactly what a run charges. Invalid input is never charged and failed or canceled requests are refunded automatically.

## Input parameters

| Parameter | Canonical name | Type | Required | Default | Allowed values / range | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `text` |  | string | yes |  | ≤ 300 characters | Text for speech synthesis, limited to 300 characters and supporting 23 languages. Available languages include English and French; German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Hindi and Arabic; Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, among others. |
| `voice` |  | string | no | `english` |  | Synthesis language code, with custom use requiring both an audio URL and a selection for custom_audio_language. |
| `custom_audio_language` |  | enum (string) \| null | no |  | `english`, `arabic`, `danish`, `german`, `greek`, `spanish`, `finnish`, `french`, `hebrew`, `hindi`, `italian`, `japanese`, `korean`, `malay`, `dutch`, `norwegian`, `polish`, `portuguese`, `russian`, `swedish`, `swahili`, `turkish`, `chinese` | Language setting that applies only when the voice is supplied as a custom URL; otherwise it is ignored. Specify the language spoken in that custom audio. |
| `exaggeration` |  | number | no | `0.5` | 0.25 – 2 | Speech expression and emotional intensity relative to the neutral setting of 0.5. Increasing the value adds expressiveness within the 0.25–2.0 range, though extreme settings may cause instability. |
| `temperature` |  | number | no | `0.8` | 0.05 – 2 | Adjust speech-pattern variety by setting generation randomness between 0.05 and 2.0; increasing the value produces more variation. |
| `cfg_scale` |  | number | no | `0.5` | 0 – 1 | Generation guidance weight for configuration/pace. For language transfer, 0.0 helps limit accent inheritance; the full range is 0.0–1.0. |
| `seed` |  | integer \| null | no |  |  | Generation seed with two behaviors: 0 selects random generation, whereas a specific number makes outputs reproducible. |

## Example input

Required parameters only:

```json
{
  "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence."
}
```

A fuller example:

```json
{
  "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence."
}
```

## Run it

Set `DOITONG_API_KEY` to a key from https://doitong.com/developers/dashboard#keys. `?wait=20` returns the finished request in the same call when it is ready within 20 seconds; otherwise poll `GET /requests/{id}` (it also accepts `?wait=`), or pass `webhook_url`.

### curl

```bash
# Run the model; wait up to 20 s for the finished result in the same call
curl -X POST "https://api.doitong.com/v1/run/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual?wait=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOITONG_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence."
  }'

# Still "queued" or "running"? Poll with the id from the response:
curl "https://api.doitong.com/v1/requests/REQUEST_ID?wait=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOITONG_API_KEY"
```

### JavaScript

```javascript
const API = "https://api.doitong.com/v1";
const headers = {
  "Authorization": "Bearer " + process.env.DOITONG_API_KEY,
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
};

// Run the model; wait up to 20 s for the finished result in the same call
let res = await fetch(API + "/run/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual?wait=20", {
  method: "POST",
  headers,
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence."
  }),
});
let request = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(request.error.code + ": " + request.error.message);

// Not finished yet: long-poll until it is
while (request.status === "queued" || request.status === "running") {
  res = await fetch(API + "/requests/" + request.id + "?wait=20", { headers });
  request = await res.json();
}
if (request.status !== "succeeded") throw new Error(JSON.stringify(request.error));
console.log(request.outputs.map((o) => o.url), request.cost.credits + " API credits ($" + request.cost.usd + ")");
```

### Python

```python
import os
import requests

API = "https://api.doitong.com/v1"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["DOITONG_API_KEY"]}

payload = {
    "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence.",
}

# Run the model; wait up to 20 s for the finished result in the same call
r = requests.post(API + "/run/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual", params={"wait": 20}, json=payload, headers=headers)
request = r.json()
if not r.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(request["error"]["code"] + ": " + request["error"]["message"])

# Not finished yet: long-poll until it is
while request["status"] in ("queued", "running"):
    request = requests.get(API + "/requests/" + request["id"], params={"wait": 20}, headers=headers).json()
if request["status"] != "succeeded":
    raise RuntimeError(request["error"])
print([o["url"] for o in request["outputs"]], request["cost"]["credits"], "API credits", "$" + request["cost"]["usd"])
```

### MCP

The MCP server at `https://api.doitong.com/v1/mcp` exposes the tools `search_models`, `get_model`, `quote`, `run`, `get_request`, `cancel_request`, `list_requests`, `create_upload` and `get_account`. A `run` call for this model:

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "run",
    "arguments": {
      "model_id": "chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual",
      "input": {
        "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence."
      },
      "wait_seconds": 20
    }
  }
}
```

## Response

Every call returns a request object. `status` is one of `queued`, `running`, `succeeded`, `failed`, `canceled`. `outputs` lists the generated files with URLs on our storage (kept forever, or 7 days with `?storage=temporary`; `storage` says which); `output` is the model's own result object with the same URLs.

```json
{
  "id": "req_8k2m4q7x1z9c3v5b6n0p2r4t",
  "object": "request",
  "model": "chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "created_at": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
  "started_at": "2026-10-20T12:00:02Z",
  "completed_at": "2026-10-20T12:00:09Z",
  "queue_position": null,
  "cost": {
    "credits": 2,
    "usd": "0.002",
    "charged": 2,
    "refunded": 0
  },
  "input": {
    "text": "Hello from Doitong. This is a short test sentence."
  },
  "output": {
    "audio": {
      "url": "https://content.doitong.com/dev-api/2026/10/20/req_8k2m4q7x1z9c3v5b6n0p2r4t/0-output.mp3",
      "content_type": "audio/mpeg",
      "file_name": "0-output.mp3",
      "file_size": 1843200
    }
  },
  "outputs": [
    {
      "type": "audio",
      "url": "https://content.doitong.com/dev-api/2026/10/20/req_8k2m4q7x1z9c3v5b6n0p2r4t/0-output.mp3",
      "content_type": "audio/mpeg",
      "file_size": 1843200,
      "duration": 12,
      "stored": true
    }
  ],
  "error": null,
  "metrics": {
    "inference_seconds": 6.8
  },
  "urls": {
    "self": "https://api.doitong.com/v1/requests/req_8k2m4q7x1z9c3v5b6n0p2r4t",
    "cancel": "https://api.doitong.com/v1/requests/req_8k2m4q7x1z9c3v5b6n0p2r4t/cancel"
  }
}
```

### Output fields (`output`)

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `audio` | object {url, content_type, file_name, file_size} | Audio file containing synthesized multilingual speech. |

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- [Chatterbox · Speech to Speech](https://doitong.com/developers/models/chatterbox/speech-to-speech.md) (`chatterbox/speech-to-speech`): $0.015 / minute of input audio
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- [Bytedance Seed Speech Text to Speech](https://doitong.com/developers/models/bytedance/seed-speech/tts/v2.md) (`bytedance/seed-speech/tts/v2`): $0.03 / 1000 characters

## Links

- HTML page: https://doitong.com/developers/models/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual
- All models and guides for AI agents: https://doitong.com/developers/llms.txt
- OpenAPI 3.1 with this model's typed request body: https://doitong.com/developers/openapi.json?model=chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual
- Errors: https://doitong.com/developers/docs/errors
- Model details as JSON: https://api.doitong.com/v1/models/chatterbox/text-to-speech/multilingual