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. 🐈 GitHub : https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro 🚀 Demo : https://hf.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro TTS [!NOTE] As of April 2025, the market rate of Kokoro served over API is under $1 per million characters of text input , or under $0.06 per hour of audio output. (On average, 1000 characters of input is about 1 minute of output.) Sources: ArtificialAnalysis/Replicate at 65 cents per M chars and DeepInfra at 80 cents per M chars. This is an Apache licensed model, and Kokoro has been deployed in numerous projects and commercial APIs. We welcome the deployment of the model in real use cases. [!CAUTION] Fake websites like kokorottsai com (snapshot: https://archive.ph/nRRnk) and kokorotts net (snapshot: https://archive.ph/60opa) are likely scams masquerading under the banner of a popular model. Any website containing "kokoro" in its root domain (e.g. kokorottsai com, kokorotts net…
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