Kokoro

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Description

Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to larger models while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient. With Apache-licensed weights, Kokoro can be deployed anywhere from production environments to personal projects.

For a list of voices and languages available for this model, please see: VOICES

The above was sourced from the following model card on hugging face: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M

Capabilities

Model	Training Data	Input	Output	Context Length	Cost (per minute of audio)
kokoro	Jan 2025	Text	Audio	n/a	$0.006/minute

info

• Pricing is based on one minute of audio
• All prices listed are based on 1 minute of audio

Availability

Cloud Provider

Usage

curl

curl https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1/audio/speech \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d "{ \
      "model": "kokoro", \
    	  "input": "I am an AI assistant here to help", \
    	  "voice": "af_heart", \
    	  "response_format": "mp3", \
    	  "speed": 1.0
  }" \
--output output.mp3

python

from openai import OpenAI
  outputFile = "output.mp3"

  client = OpenAI(
      api_key="your_api_key",
      base_url="https://api.ai.it.ufl.edu/v1"
  )

  with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="kokoro",
    voice="af_heart", #single or multiple voicepack combo
    input="I am an AI assistant here to help.",
    speed="1.0"
  ) as response:
    response.stream_to_file(outputFile)