Installing chatter

chatter should always be installed inside a new virtual environment. To create an environment using conda you can run:

conda create -n chatter python==3.13.3

Then, you can activate the environment and install from GitHub using pip or uv:

conda activate chatter
pip install chatter-pkg

conda activate chatter
uv pip install chatter-pkg

Note that chatter uses torch as its machine learning backend, and was developed to use GPU acceleration on Apple Silicon. If you run into issues with compatibility, please look into the torch documentation before opening an issue on GitHub.