ChatTTS vs Good Tape

ChatTTS is an open-source text-to-speech model built for dialogue. The 2Noise team trained it on over 100,000 hours of Chinese and English speech so it sounds natural in back-and-forth conversation, not just scripted narration.

What sets it apart is prosody control at a granular level. The model can layer in laughter, pauses, and interjections, and it handles multiple speakers in a single session. That makes it a fit for LLM assistants, conversational audio, and dialogue-heavy multimedia.

Developers install it via pip or clone the GitHub repo. The open-source release on Hugging Face is a 40,000-hour base model under AGPLv3+. The team positions it for research and dialogue use cases, with contact at [email protected] for roadmap questions.

Good Tape turns audio and video recordings into searchable text for journalists, researchers, lawyers, and other professionals who need transcripts they can trust. Upload files in the browser or record directly with the iOS and Android app, then get transcripts in 100+ languages with speaker labels, synced audio playback, and an editor for quick corrections.

The platform adds AI summaries, bulk uploads, subtitle exports (.srt and .vtt), team sharing, and an MCP connector so you can pull transcript content into external LLM tools. Projects keep large archives organized, and files stay encrypted in the EU under GDPR and ISO 27001 standards without being used to train models.

Good Tape was built in Copenhagen with input from working journalists and now serves about 3 million users, including newsrooms like Zetland. Free trial access includes one hour of transcription with full Pro features and no credit card required.