Kokoro TTS

Kokoro is a frontier TTS model for its size of 82 million parameters (text in/audio out). This JavaScript library allows the model to be run 100% locally in the browser thanks to 🤗 Transformers.js. Try it out using our online demo!

Usage

First, install the kokoro-js library from NPM using:

npm i kokoro-js

You can then generate speech as follows:

import { KokoroTTS } from "kokoro-js";

const model_id = "onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX";
const tts = await KokoroTTS.from_pretrained(model_id, {
  dtype: "q8", // Options: "fp32", "fp16", "q8", "q4", "q4f16"
  device: "wasm", // Options: "wasm", "webgpu" (web) or "cpu" (node). If using "webgpu", we recommend using dtype="fp32".
});

const text = "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.";
const audio = await tts.generate(text, {
  // Use `tts.list_voices()` to list all available voices
  voice: "af_heart",
});
audio.save("audio.wav");

Voices/Samples

Tip

You can find samples for each of the voices in the model card on Hugging Face.

American English

Name	Traits	Target Quality	Training Duration	Overall Grade
af_heart	🚺❤️			A
af_alloy	🚺	B	MM minutes	C
af_aoede	🚺	B	H hours	C+
af_bella	🚺🔥	A	HH hours	A-
af_jessica	🚺	C	MM minutes	D
af_kore	🚺	B	H hours	C+
af_nicole	🚺🎧	B	HH hours	B-
af_nova	🚺	B	MM minutes	C
af_river	🚺	C	MM minutes	D
af_sarah	🚺	B	H hours	C+
af_sky	🚺	B	M minutes 🤏	C-
am_adam	🚹	D	H hours	F+
am_echo	🚹	C	MM minutes	D
am_eric	🚹	C	MM minutes	D
am_fenrir	🚹	B	H hours	C+
am_liam	🚹	C	MM minutes	D
am_michael	🚹	B	H hours	C+
am_onyx	🚹	C	MM minutes	D
am_puck	🚹	B	H hours	C+
am_santa	🚹	C	M minutes 🤏	D-

British English

Name	Traits	Target Quality	Training Duration	Overall Grade
bf_alice	🚺	C	MM minutes	D
bf_emma	🚺	B	HH hours	B-
bf_isabella	🚺	B	MM minutes	C
bf_lily	🚺	C	MM minutes	D
bm_daniel	🚹	C	MM minutes	D
bm_fable	🚹	B	MM minutes	C
bm_george	🚹	B	MM minutes	C
bm_lewis	🚹	C	H hours	D+