Kokoro TTS v0.19: professional TTS quality with just 82 million parameters
In one sentence Kokoro TTS achieves quality comparable to systems 10x its size with only 82M parameters, sub-1-second inference on CPU, Apache 2.0, ideal for edge devices.
Kokoro is a TTS model that challenges the idea that billions of parameters are needed for good speech synthesis: with just 82 million parameters — less than many image classification models — it produces voices of quality comparable to systems ten times larger. On a normal laptop it generates one second of audio in less than a second, making it perfect for applications that must run directly on the user's device without internet connection. It is released under Apache 2.0 on HuggingFace, so completely free for commercial use. It quickly gained popularity among developers looking for a lightweight TTS to integrate into desktop apps, mobile apps and IoT devices.
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