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Kokoro v1.0 - text-to-speech (82M params, based on StyleTTS2)

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license: apache-2.0 language: - en base_model: - yl4579/StyleTTS2-LJSpeech pipeline_tag: text-to-speech


Disclaimer

This is a fork of the original Kokoro repo, in order to provide easy inference on Replicate. I am not affiliated with the original Kokoro authors, and this is not an official release of the Kokoro model. Similar to the Huggingface Space, this implementation provides automatic text splitting to support long form text inputs. See the original README below for more details.


Voices

American English

  • lang_code='a' in misaki[en]
  • espeak-ng en-us fallback
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256
af_heart ๐Ÿšบโค๏ธ A 0ab5709b
af_alloy ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C 6d877149
af_aoede ๐Ÿšบ B H hours C+ c03bd1a4
af_bella ๐Ÿšบ๐Ÿ”ฅ A HH hours A- 8cb64e02
af_jessica ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D cdfdccb8
af_kore ๐Ÿšบ B H hours C+ 8bfbc512
af_nicole ๐Ÿšบ๐ŸŽง B HH hours B- c5561808
af_nova ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C e0233676
af_river ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D e149459b
af_sarah ๐Ÿšบ B H hours C+ 49bd364e
af_sky ๐Ÿšบ B M minutes ๐Ÿค C- c799548a
am_adam ๐Ÿšน D H hours F+ ced7e284
am_echo ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D 8bcfdc85
am_eric ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D ada66f0e
am_fenrir ๐Ÿšน B H hours C+ 98e507ec
am_liam ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D c8255075
am_michael ๐Ÿšน B H hours C+ 9a443b79
am_onyx ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D e8452be1
am_puck ๐Ÿšน B H hours C+ dd1d8973
am_santa ๐Ÿšน C M minutes ๐Ÿค D- 7f2f7582

British English

  • lang_code='b' in misaki[en]
  • espeak-ng en-gb fallback
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256
bf_alice ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D d292651b
bf_emma ๐Ÿšบ B HH hours B- d0a423de
bf_isabella ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C cdd4c370
bf_lily ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D 6e09c2e4
bm_daniel ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D fc3fce4e
bm_fable ๐Ÿšน B MM minutes C d44935f3
bm_george ๐Ÿšน B MM minutes C f1bc8122
bm_lewis ๐Ÿšน C H hours D+ b5204750

Japanese

  • lang_code='j' in misaki[ja]
  • Total Japanese training data: H hours
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256 CC BY
jf_alpha ๐Ÿšบ B H hours C+ 1bf4c9dc
jf_gongitsune ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C 1b171917 gongitsune
jf_nezumi ๐Ÿšบ B M minutes ๐Ÿค C- d83f007a nezuminoyomeiri
jf_tebukuro ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C 0d691790 tebukurowokaini
jm_kumo ๐Ÿšน B M minutes ๐Ÿค C- 98340afd kumonoito

Mandarin Chinese

  • lang_code='z' in misaki[zh]
  • Total Mandarin Chinese training data: H hours
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256
zf_xiaobei ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D 9b76be63
zf_xiaoni ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D 95b49f16
zf_xiaoxiao ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D cfaf6f2d
zf_xiaoyi ๐Ÿšบ C MM minutes D b5235dba
zm_yunjian ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D 76cbf8ba
zm_yunxi ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D dbe6e1ce
zm_yunxia ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D bb2b03b0
zm_yunyang ๐Ÿšน C MM minutes D 5238ac22

Spanish

Name Traits SHA256
ef_dora ๐Ÿšบ d9d69b0f
em_alex ๐Ÿšน 5eac53f7
em_santa ๐Ÿšน aa8620cb

French

  • lang_code='f' in misaki[en]
  • espeak-ng fr-fr
  • Total French training data: <11 hours
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256 CC BY
ff_siwis ๐Ÿšบ B <11 hours B- 8073bf2d SIWIS

Hindi

  • lang_code='h' in misaki[en]
  • espeak-ng hi
  • Total Hindi training data: H hours
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256
hf_alpha ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C 06906fe0
hf_beta ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C 63c0a1a6
hm_omega ๐Ÿšน B MM minutes C b55f02a8
hm_psi ๐Ÿšน B MM minutes C 2f0f055c

Italian

  • lang_code='i' in misaki[en]
  • espeak-ng it
  • Total Italian training data: H hours
Name Traits Target Quality Training Duration Overall Grade SHA256
if_sara ๐Ÿšบ B MM minutes C 6c0b253b
im_nicola ๐Ÿšน B MM minutes C 234ed066

Brazilian Portuguese

Name Traits SHA256
pf_dora ๐Ÿšบ 07e4ff98
pm_alex ๐Ÿšน cf0ba8c5
pm_santa ๐Ÿšน d4210316

โœจ You can now pip install kokoro! See Usage.

Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to larger models while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient. With Apache-licensed weights, Kokoro can be deployed anywhere from production environments to personal projects.

Creative Commons Attribution

The following CC BY audio was part of the dataset used to train Kokoro v1.0.

Audio Data Duration Used License Added to Training Set After
Koniwa tnc <1h CC BY 3.0 v0.19 / 22 Nov 2024
SIWIS <11h CC BY 4.0 v0.19 / 22 Nov 2024

Acknowledgements

  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ @yl4579 for architecting StyleTTS 2.
  • ๐Ÿ† @Pendrokar for adding Kokoro as a contender in the TTS Spaces Arena.
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Thank you to everyone who contributed synthetic training data.
  • โค๏ธ Special thanks to all compute sponsors.
  • ๐Ÿ‘พ Discord server: https://discord.gg/QuGxSWBfQy
  • ๐Ÿชฝ Kokoro is a Japanese word that translates to โ€œheartโ€ or โ€œspiritโ€. Kokoro is also the name of an AI in the Terminator franchise.

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