Kokoro
Tiny free voice model that runs on any laptop.
Best on your computerFreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Offline reading on any computer
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- License
- Apache-2.0
What’s good
- Runs fast on a normal CPU, no graphics card
- 54 voices in 8 languages
- Apache license, use it for anything
Downsides
- Flatter emotion than paid voices
- No voice cloning
- Setup is Python or a community app
At a glance.
- Best for
- Offline reading on any computer
- Price
- Free, open source
- Version
- Kokoro 82M v1.0Released 2025-01
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Open source
- Yes, Apache-2.0
- Made by
- hexgrad
- Website
- huggingface.co
How it ranks.
- Artificial Analysis Speech Arena#64 · 10612026-11-05
- TTS Arena V2#30 · 14652026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use Pinokio, mlx-audio (Mac), kokoro Python package.
- You need
- Any laptop from the last few years, no GPU needed
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns
What it sounds like.
“Hi, I'm reading this sentence so you can compare AI voices side by side. Which one sounds the most human to you?”