Install
Status: Current Last modified: 2026-06-21 21:33 EDT
Installation paths for each surface of chatter. Pick the row that matches what you want to do and the audience you belong to.
| If you want to… | Use this surface | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Validate, normalize, convert, or batch-process CHAT files | chatter CLI | CLI installation |
| Embed the Rust crates in another program | Rust libraries | Library usage |
| Reuse the grammar in editor or parser tooling | tree-sitter-talkbank | crate docs plus the CHAT format overview |
chatter is publicly released: the CLI and desktop app are available from the
latest GitHub release.
The Rust crates and grammar are source-available from this repository (not yet
published to crates.io). As a 0.x release, APIs and flags may change before 1.0.
For audio + ML pipelines (transcribe, force-align, morphotag,
benchmark), see the upstream batchalign3 project, that lives
outside the chatter repo and has its own installation flow.