Kokoro-82M
Source: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
Structured fields
{
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "82M-parameter open TTS (v1.0, January 2025) with 54 voices across 8 languages, Apache-2.0, trained per the card on permissive/non-copyrighted audio; light enough for CPU/edge narration and scratch dialogue.",
"source_type": "model",
"availability": "available",
"dependencies": [
"kokoro>=0.9.2",
"espeak-ng",
"misaki"
],
"source_owner": "hexgrad",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-31T00:00:00.000Z",
"hardware_notes": "Small model; CPU-capable (not measured here).",
"upstream_updated_at": "2025-04-10T18:12:48.000Z"
}Evidence claims
- [upstream_claim] Model card: 82 million parameters; license apache-2.0; v1.0 supports 8 languages and 54 voices; released January 27, 2025. · locator: model card, header and release info source
- [upstream_claim] Card states it was trained exclusively on permissive/non-copyrighted audio and IPA phoneme labels (a few hundred hours); synthetic audio from open TTS models or custom voice clones was excluded. · locator: model card, training details source
- [sourced_fact] Usage needs the kokoro package (>=0.9.2), soundfile and espeak-ng, with the misaki G2P library. · locator: model card, usage source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| model_weights | Apache-2.0 | permitted | permitted | permitted | unknown | Apache-2.0 per model card; the training-data statement is the author's claim, not independently verified. |
| code | Apache-2.0 | permitted | permitted | permitted | unknown | Inference package repository hexgrad/kokoro is Apache-2.0 per GitHub metadata. |