#kokoro

2026-10-21 sahilmahendrakar/paradee 未评级 An 8M-parameter English text-to-speech model distilled from Kokoro-82M. 9 MB, runs 18x real time on one CPU thread.

2026-10-16 vincentsch/explainroo 未评级 Explainer videos and product demos made by your AI agent. Free and open source: a local voice (Kokoro), word timing (Whisper) and a canvas renderer turn a script into a narrated MP4.

2026-10-03 Show HN: Portable Kokoro TTS binary with g2p, normalizer, lexicon, and guesser 未评级 I wanted a portable CPU implementation of kokoro for a project I am working on for a voice interface and found the current GGML/GGUF models were sometimes slower than python torch code. I love Kokoro for it's consistency and desired an easier way to integrate it into my projects. Focusing on a non-quantized SIMD yielded excellent performance for my targets. Theoretically portable to NEON and other accelerators though I have not tried. Hopefully useful for those of you looking for a less complex deployment of a TTS function that includes a G2P. On the side I am exploring IPA more in depth and is where the g2p lexicon comes from. Espeak-ng involves tradeoffs on lexicon, emphasis, and frankly I just wanted to learn more about the subject. This kokoro work is largely in support of that exploration, but I figure it could be useful to somebody.

2026-09-15 Show HN: Chickadee – Free, local, open-source text-to-speech for web pages 未评级 I wanted to listen to articles without a robotic voice or another subscription, so I built Chickadee: a free, open-source Chrome extension that runs a voice model locally. It runs Kokoro-82M, an 82-million-parameter speech model, directly in your browser using WebGPU. The speech is generated on your computer. No account, API key, or subscription needed. Chickadee includes: • 12 voices and adjustable playback speed • Sentence highlighting right on the original page • Offline speech after the initial model download • No account, subscription, or API key Source: https://github.com/sahilmahendrakar/chickadee I'd love to hear what you think. Try it out here https://www.usechickadee.com