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Kokoro 82M
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RANKED #18 OF 31 AUDIO · OVERALL #357 OF 7,034 · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 30 VOICES
Kokoro-82M-ONNX on Hugging Face (text to speech). 55,766 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.6
8 mentions
SAD5.4
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 29 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Kokoro 82M once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
82M parameters, FP32 file is about 330 MB and INT8/quantized ONNX is about 86 to 170 MB
- BARE MINIMUM
Raspberry Pi 5
4 GB RAM
~$60 NEWONNX quantized INT8, realtime streaming on CPU, ~2x realtime speed
- SWEET SPOT
Mac mini M4
16 GB UNIFIED RAM
~$599 NEWFull FP32/FP16 precision, instant offline TTS pipeline, ~25x realtime speed
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
12 GB VRAM
~$599 NEWFull FP16 with CUDA / TensorRT acceleration, high-concurrency batch generation, ~120x realtime speed
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN KOKORO 82M?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Kokoro 82M takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMRaspberry Pi 5 | SWEET SPOTMac mini M4 | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narrate a scripta minute of spoken audio | ~30 S★★★★★ | ~2 S★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ |
| Transcribe a recordinga ten minute recording turned into text | ~5 MIN★★★★★ | ~24 S★★★★★ | ~5 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Kokoro 82M yet to call it. We found 30 posts but people did not say much either way.
28 POSTS · 2 COMMENTS · REDDIT · DEV.TO · BLUESKY · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with audio models like this one.
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- REDDIT · 2026-07-06 · 216 UPVOTESKyutai's Pocket TTS clones a voice from 5 seconds of audio, on CPU, under MIT. Benchmarked against Kokoro, Supertonic, and Inflect-Nano for…
Kyutai's Pocket TTS clones a voice from 5 seconds of audio, on CPU, under MIT. Benchmarked against Kokoro, Supertonic, and Inflect-Nano for Eng. TTS
- REDDIT · 2025-01-12 · 59 UPVOTEShow to use kokoro with silly tavern in ubuntu
how to use kokoro with silly tavern in ubuntu
- REDDIT · 2025-02-18 · 32 UPVOTESguide for kokoro v1.0 , now supports 8 languages, best TTS for low resources system(CPU and GPU)
guide for kokoro v1.0 , now supports 8 languages, best TTS for low resources system(CPU and GPU)
- REDDIT · 2025-01-19 · 15 UPVOTESKokoro-82M on Ollama?
Kokoro-82M on Ollama?
- REDDIT · 2026-02-03 · 15 UPVOTESMimikaStudio - Voice Cloning, TTS & Audiobook Creator (macOS + Web): the most comprehensive open source app for voice cloning and TTS.
MimikaStudio - Voice Cloning, TTS & Audiobook Creator (macOS + Web): the most comprehensive open source app for voice cloning and TTS.
- REDDIT · 2025-01-20 · 6 UPVOTESWorking on a local TTS compatible PDF Reader (to use with Kokoro-82M)
Working on a local TTS compatible PDF Reader (to use with Kokoro-82M)
- REDDIT · 2025-06-18 · 4 UPVOTESCan anyone recommend a local open source TTS that has streaming and actual support for the GPU From a github project?
Can anyone recommend a local open source TTS that has streaming and actual support for the GPU From a github project?
- REDDIT · 2026-07-06 · 4 UPVOTESCPU TTS benchmark with UTMOS MOS scoring: Kokoro, Supertonic, Inflect-Nano, and Kyutai's new Pocket TTS [P]
CPU TTS benchmark with UTMOS MOS scoring: Kokoro, Supertonic, Inflect-Nano, and Kyutai's new Pocket TTS [P]
- REDDIT · 2026-05-27 · 2 UPVOTESFool proof way to get Kokoro TTS (with streaming) working with SillyTavern
Fool proof way to get Kokoro TTS (with streaming) working with SillyTavern
- REDDIT · 2026-04-02 · 1 UPVOTESI made a DIY Claude Code voice assistant
I made a DIY Claude Code voice assistant
- REDDIT · 2025-01-19 · 0 UPVOTESInstall Kokoro on PC
Install Kokoro on PC
- GITHUB · 2026-09-03 · 0 UPVOTESfeat: add logus2k/tts_eu_pt European Portuguese Kokoro voice
feat: add logus2k/tts_eu_pt European Portuguese Kokoro voice