File 002 · Local Intelligence
Record 099 · Voice · 2024
24.99.VKokoro TTS
hexgrad
“An Apache TTS that became a homelab favorite for quality-per-parameter.”
A small TTS that sounds expensive.
Kokoro (82M) showed local speech could sound hosted. Piper is the Pi; Kokoro is the nice voice on the GPU box.
Raised the local TTS quality floor at tiny size.
Filed notes
- Small high-quality TTS
- Apache-2.0
- Easy local run
SIC
7372
Prepackaged Software
NAICS
511210
Software Publishers
