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I'm excited to share Kokoro TTS, an open-source text-to-speech model we've been working on. Despite its relatively small size (82M parameters), it achieves impr

I'm excited to share Kokoro TTS, an open-source text-to-speech model we've been working on. Despite its relatively small size (82M parameters), it achieves impressive results in natural speech synthesis, ranking first in the TTS Spaces Arena benchmark. The model is Apache 2.0 licensed and trained on less than 100 hours of audio data. It supports both American and British English, offering multiple voice options with natural emotional expression and 24kHz audio output. We've deployed a demo at kokorotts.online where you can try it out. I'd really appreciate any feedback from the HN community on both the model's performance and potential applications. Tech stack: StyleTTS 2 architecture, ONNX runtime, Next.js for the web interface.

kissgyorgy 2y ago
It's NOT Open Source.
- vanous 2y ago
  And it's not offline.
- dontdoxxme 2y ago
  Confusing messaging, a previous version is: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M (matching the demo if you use the "TTS v0.19" tab, it has some artefacts in the voice[1] and definitely doesn't sound as good as the latest version). "There currently isn't a release date scheduled for the other voices" [1]: https://huggingface.co/blog/hexgrad/kokoro-short-burst-upgrade https://huggingface.co/blog/hexgrad/kokoro-short-burst-upgra...
- CGamesPlay 2y ago
  In which sense? https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M - Apache 2.0 weights in this repository - MIT inference code in spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS adapted from yl4579/StyleTTS2 - GPLv3 dependency in espeak-ng
  - kissgyorgy 2y ago
    That's not the model repository advertised in the post.
matrixhelix 2y ago
Where is the code?
dcreater 2y ago
The website is not from the authors. Seems fraudulent HF: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS

kissgyorgy 2y ago

It's NOT Open Source.

vanous 2y ago
And it's not offline.
dontdoxxme 2y ago
Confusing messaging, a previous version is: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M (matching the demo if you use the "TTS v0.19" tab, it has some artefacts in the voice[1] and definitely doesn't sound as good as the latest version). "There currently isn't a release date scheduled for the other voices" [1]: https://huggingface.co/blog/hexgrad/kokoro-short-burst-upgrade https://huggingface.co/blog/hexgrad/kokoro-short-burst-upgra...
CGamesPlay 2y ago
In which sense? https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M - Apache 2.0 weights in this repository - MIT inference code in spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS adapted from yl4579/StyleTTS2 - GPLv3 dependency in espeak-ng
- kissgyorgy 2y ago
  That's not the model repository advertised in the post.

matrixhelix 2y ago

Where is the code?

dcreater 2y ago

The website is not from the authors. Seems fraudulent HF: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS