Kokoro 82M
简介
核心亮点
- 极小参数量实现高自然度语音合成
- 端侧推理速度极快,低延迟响应
- Apache-2.0 协议,支持商业化自由部署
- 适合集成至轻量级 AI 助手或阅读工具
使用方法
# 安装 Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch
# 使用 transformers 加载模型
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("hexgrad/Kokoro-82M")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("hexgrad/Kokoro-82M")
Hugging Face 下载
我们推荐使用命令行或者 Hugging Face Hub SDK 来进行模型的下载。
操作指引:在下载前,请先通过如下命令安装 huggingface_hub:
pip install -U huggingface_hub
命令行下载
下载完整模型库
huggingface-cli download hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
下载单个文件到指定本地文件夹(以下载 config.json 到当前路径下 ./dir 目录为例)
huggingface-cli download hexgrad/Kokoro-82M config.json --local-dir ./dir
SDK 下载
# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('hexgrad/Kokoro-82M')
Git 下载
请确保 lfs 已经被正确安装
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
如果您希望跳过 lfs 大文件下载,可以使用如下命令
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
模型文件托管在 Hugging Face Hub,使用 HF CLI / SDK / Git 直接下载,不经过本站。
PyTorch / Transformers 使用
安装 Transformers
pip install -U transformers torch
模型加载和推理
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('hexgrad/Kokoro-82M')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('hexgrad/Kokoro-82M')
模型下载
我们推荐使用命令行或者 ModelScope SDK 来进行模型的下载。
操作指引:在下载前,请先通过如下命令安装 ModelScope:
pip install modelscope
命令行下载
下载完整模型库
modelscope download --model hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
下载单个文件到指定本地文件夹(以下载 README.md 到当前路径下 dir 目录为例)
modelscope download --model hexgrad/Kokoro-82M README.md --local_dir ./dir
SDK 下载
# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('hexgrad/Kokoro-82M')
Git 下载
请确保 lfs 已经被正确安装
git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M.git
如果您希望跳过 lfs 大文件下载,可以使用如下命令
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M.git
ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件;无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。
Notebook 快速开发
下载并安装 ModelScope library
pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html
模型加载和推理
from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks
p = pipeline('text-generation', 'hexgrad/Kokoro-82M')
完整文档
---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
base_model:
- yl4579/StyleTTS2-LJSpeech
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
---
Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to larger models while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient. With Apache-licensed weights, Kokoro can be deployed anywhere from production environments to personal projects.
<audio controls><source src="https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/resolve/main/samples/HEARME.wav" type="audio/wav"></audio>
🐈 GitHub: https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro
🚀 Demo: https://hf.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
> [!NOTE]
> As of April 2025, the market rate of Kokoro served over API is under $1 per million characters of text input, or under $0.06 per hour of audio output. (On average, 1000 characters of input is about 1 minute of output.) Sources: ArtificialAnalysis/Replicate at 65 cents per M chars and DeepInfra at 80 cents per M chars.
>
> This is an Apache-licensed model, and Kokoro has been deployed in numerous projects and commercial APIs. We welcome the deployment of the model in real use cases.
> [!CAUTION]
> Fake websites like kokorottsai_com (snapshot: https://archive.ph/nRRnk) and kokorotts_net (snapshot: https://archive.ph/60opa) are likely scams masquerading under the banner of a popular model.
>
> Any website containing "kokoro" in its root domain (e.g. kokorottsai_com, kokorotts_net) is NOT owned by and NOT affiliated with this model page or its author, and attempts to imply otherwise are red flags.
- EVAL.md ↗️
- SAMPLES.md ↗️
- VOICES.md ↗️
Releases
| Model | Published | Training Data | Langs & Voices | SHA256 |
| ----- | --------- | ------------- | -------------- | ------ |
| v1.0 | 2025 Jan 27 | Few hundred hrs | 8 & 54 | 496dba11 |
| v0.19 | 2024 Dec 25 | <100 hrs | 1 & 10 | 3b0c392f |
| Training Costs | v0.19 | v1.0 | Total |
| -------------- | ----- | ---- | ----- |
| in A100 80GB GPU hours | 500 | 500 | 1000 |
| average hourly rate | $0.80/h | $1.20/h | $1/h |
| in USD | $400 | $600 | $1000 |
Usage
You can run this basic cell on Google Colab. Listen to samples. For more languages and details, see Advanced Usage.!pip install -q kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile
!apt-get -qq -y install espeak-ng > /dev/null 2>&1
from kokoro import KPipeline
from IPython.display import display, Audio
import soundfile as sf
import torch
pipeline = KPipeline(lang_code='a')
text = '''
Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to larger models while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient. With Apache-licensed weights, Kokoro can be deployed anywhere from production environments to personal projects.
'''
generator = pipeline(text, voice='af_heart')
for i, (gs, ps, audio) in enumerate(generator):
print(i, gs, ps)
display(Audio(data=audio, rate=24000, autoplay=i==0))
sf.write(f'{i}.wav', audio, 24000)kokoro uses misaki, a G2P library at https://github.com/hexgrad/misaki
Model Facts
Architecture:
- StyleTTS 2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07691
- ISTFTNet: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02395
- Decoder only: no diffusion, no encoder release
Architected by: Li et al @ https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2
Trained by: @rzvzn on Discord
Languages: Multiple
Model SHA256 Hash: 496dba118d1a58f5f3db2efc88dbdc216e0483fc89fe6e47ee1f2c53f18ad1e4
Training Details
Data: Kokoro was trained exclusively on permissive/non-copyrighted audio data and IPA phoneme labels. Examples of permissive/non-copyrighted audio include:
- Public domain audio
- Audio licensed under Apache, MIT, etc
- Synthetic audio<sup>[1]</sup> generated by closed<sup>[2]</sup> TTS models from large providers<br/>
[1] https://copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf<br/>
[2] No synthetic audio from open TTS models or "custom voice clones"
Total Dataset Size: A few hundred hours of audio
Total Training Cost: About $1000 for 1000 hours of A100 80GB vRAM
Creative Commons Attribution
The following CC BY audio was part of the dataset used to train Kokoro v1.0.
| Audio Data | Duration Used | License | Added to Training Set After |
| ---------- | ------------- | ------- | --------------------------- |
| Koniwa tnc | <1h | CC BY 3.0 | v0.19 / 22 Nov 2024 |
| SIWIS | <11h | CC BY 4.0 | v0.19 / 22 Nov 2024 |
Acknowledgements
- 🛠️ @yl4579 for architecting StyleTTS 2.
- 🏆 @Pendrokar for adding Kokoro as a contender in the TTS Spaces Arena.
- 📊 Thank you to everyone who contributed synthetic training data.
- ❤️ Special thanks to all compute sponsors.
- 👾 Discord server: https://discord.gg/QuGxSWBfQy
- 🪽 Kokoro is a Japanese word that translates to "heart" or "spirit". It is also the name of an AI in the Terminator franchise.
<img src="https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/terminator-zero-41-1.jpg" width="400" alt="kokoro" />