Kokoro TTS

Community · 2024 · Speech Synthesis · Open-source/community

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Community
C · CEO & Politics: [UNKNOWN]
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: Open-source/community
K · Key Staffers: hexgrad (Pseudonymous creator)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Speech Synthesis
N · Safety Issues: Synthetic audio risks: voice cloning or impersonation misuse, copyright/style imitation concerns, and possible unsafe or biased outputs depending on deployment safeguards.
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Kokoro, an open-weight 82M-parameter text-to-speech model built on the StyleTTS 2 and ISTFTNet architectures (decoder only, no diffusion), with Apache 2.0 weights; its developer says it matches larger models' quality while being much faster and cheaper, and v1.0 (Jan 27, 2025) covers 8 languages and 54 voices.
S · Stock / Status: N/A (open-source project)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: [UNKNOWN]
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Speech Synthesis from Community, released 2024.

Data completeness 77% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Kokoro TTS.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/kokoro-tts.html