# Kokoro-82M

- id: src_01M569EGDW6WNG855N2P50A2AN
- type: source · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T13 · tags: level:beginner, tts, small-model, apache-2.0, local, multilingual
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:19:03.600Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569EGDW6WNG855N2P50A2AN

Source: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M

```json
{
  "archived": null,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "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",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": "Small model; CPU-capable (not measured here).",
  "known_limitations": [],
  "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: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
- [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: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
- [sourced_fact] Usage needs the kokoro package (>=0.9.2), soundfile and espeak-ng, with the misaki G2P library. · locator: model card, usage · source: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
- [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:
- model_weights: license=Apache-2.0 hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · Apache-2.0 per model card; the training-data statement is the author's claim, not independently verified. · evidence: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
- code: license=Apache-2.0 hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · Inference package repository hexgrad/kokoro is Apache-2.0 per GitHub metadata. · evidence: https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro

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