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Requires Python: <3.14,>=3.10

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kokoro-onnx

TTS with onnx runtime based on Kokoro-TTS

🚀 Version 1.0 models are out now! 🎉

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/00ca06e8-bbbd-4e08-bfb7-23c0acb10ef9

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

Install uv for isolated Python (Recommend).

pip install uv

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

uv init -p 3.12
uv add kokoro-onnx soundfile

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

Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform	Python 3
any

Files in release

kokoro_onnx-0.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (17.0KiB)

kokoro_onnx-0.5.0.tar.gz (82.6KiB)

Extras:

Dependencies:

espeakng-loader (>=0.2.4)

numpy (>=2.0.2)

onnxruntime (>=1.20.1)

phonemizer-fork (>=3.3.2)

kokoro-onnx 0.5.0