In today’s rapidly evolving AI-powered speech synthesis world, a rising star is making its mark. Kokoro, a Text-to-Speech (TTS) model with only 82 million parameters, has stood out in the TTS Spaces Arena with its excellent performance and innovative design, proving that small can also be mighty.
Kokoro v0.19 took the top spot in the single-speaker evaluation in TTS Spaces Arena. This achievement is remarkable because it outperformed many larger competitors, showing that high-quality speech synthesis doesn’t always require massive resources or complex models.
Kokoro offers 10 carefully designed voice packs, including:
Each voice pack is finely tuned to ensure clear and natural sound, suitable for a wide range of applications.
As an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license, Kokoro provides developers and researchers with great flexibility:
Kokoro uses a simple yet efficient design:
Kokoro’s training process is distinctive:
Kokoro is highly cost-effective to develop:
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Kokoro proves that in TTS technology, smart design often outweighs large-scale models. With ongoing advancements and community contributions, we look forward to more exciting developments from Kokoro in the future.
g2p stands for grapheme-to-phoneme, which means “converting written text to pronunciation.”
g2p tools help TTS systems convert written text into phonemes for accurate pronunciation, especially in languages like English where spelling and pronunciation often differ.
TTS systems need phoneme information to generate speech. Since spelling and pronunciation don’t always match, g2p tools bridge this gap. For example:
espeak-ng is an open-source tool for g2p conversion and basic speech synthesis. Kokoro uses espeak-ng to transform text into phoneme sequences, which are then used by Kokoro to generate natural speech.
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