Kokoro-82M CoreML

End-to-end CoreML export of hexgrad/Kokoro-82M at FP16, optimized for Apple Neural Engine. Requires iOS 18+ / macOS 15+.

A single kokoro_5s.mlmodelc runs the full pipeline (BERT → duration prediction → fixed-shape alignment → prosody → decoder) in one CoreML call. G2P (grapheme-to-phoneme) is a separate pair of CoreML models.

Looking for a smaller variant? See aufklarer/Kokoro-82M-CoreML-INT8 — INT8 k-means palettized, 83 MB vs 325 MB here, with log-spec distance 0.42 vs this FP16 reference on a validation utterance.

Model

Files

Voices

54 preset voices across 10 languages: English (US/UK), Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese.

Usage

Add speech-swift to Package.swift:

.package(url: "https://github.com/soniqo/speech-swift", branch: "main")

Then synthesize:

import KokoroTTS

let tts = try await KokoroTTSModel.fromPretrained(
    modelId: "aufklarer/Kokoro-82M-CoreML"
)
let audio = try await tts.synthesize(
    "Hello world, this is a Kokoro test.",
    voice: "af_heart"
)

CLI:

swift run audio kokoro "Hello world" --voice af_heart --output out.wav

Source

• Base model: hexgrad/Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0)
• Dictionaries and G2P: Apache-2.0

License

• Model weights: Apache-2.0
• CoreML conversion: Apache-2.0

Links

• speech-swift — Apple SDK
• soniqo.audio — website
• MLX vs CoreML on Apple Silicon — a practical guide — related blog post
• soniqo.audio/blog — blog