Kokoro-82M
Kokoro-82M is an 82-million-parameter Apache-2.0 text-to-speech model; small enough to run on a CPU, with 11M+ Hugging Face downloads.
The small-model counterpoint to billion-parameter speech models; widely embedded in local voice apps. Part of 2025's open TTS wave (Orpheus 2025-03, Dia 2025-04, Chatterbox 2025-04).
- Date
- Thursday, 26 December 2024
- Lab
- Hexgrad
- Kind
- model
- Access
- open weights
Date is Hugging Face createdAt; parameter count and CPU claim are from the model card, not opened. Download count from the HF API at query time (2026-10).
Sources
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