Kokoro v1

Model Capabilities

• Text-to-speech — 24 kHz mono output
• Multilingual — American/British English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese
• 54 voices across 9 languages, naming convention <lang><gender>_<name> (e.g. af_heart, bm_george, jf_alpha)

The full description can be found at the original model page.

Getting Started

Run with NobodyWho (the model is fetched and cached on first use):

use nobodywho::tts::{Tts, TtsConfig};

let tts = Tts::new(TtsConfig::kokoro("NobodyWho/kokoro-v1"))?;
let wav = tts.synthesize("Hello from NobodyWho!")?;
std::fs::write("hello.wav", wav)?;

Benchmarks

Measured with nobodywho on Apple M4 Pro, CPU:

Credits

Original model and training by @hexgrad. Thanks!