kokoro-onnx

TTS with onnx runtime based on Kokoro-TTS

🚀 Version 1.0 models are out now! 🎉

podcast.mp4

Features

• Supports multiple languages
• Fast performance near real-time on macOS M1
• Offer multiple voices
• Lightweight: ~300MB (quantized: ~80MB)

Setup

pip install -U kokoro-onnx

Instructions

1. Install uv for isolated Python (Recommend).

pip install uv

2. Create new project folder (you name it)
3. Run in the project folder

uv init -p 3.12
uv add kokoro-onnx soundfile

4. Paste the contents of examples/save.py in hello.py
5. Download the files kokoro-v1.0.onnx, and voices-v1.0.bin and place them in the same directory.
6. Run

uv run hello.py

You can edit the text in hello.py

That's it! audio.wav should be created.

Examples

See examples

Voices

See the latest voices and languages in Kokoro-82M/VOICES.md

Note: It's recommend to use misaki g2p package from v1.0, see examples

Contribute

See CONTRIBUTE.md

License

• kokoro-onnx: MIT
• kokoro model: Apache 2.0