Generating Audio from Text with Local AI Using Kokoro-82M
Imagine being able to turn any text into audio with a natural and realistic voice, all running locally on your machine, without relying on cloud services or paid APIs. That’s exactly what Kokoro-82M offers. Kokoro is an open-weight Text-to-Speech (TTS) model with only 82 million parameters. Despite being lightweight, it delivers audio quality comparable to much larger models, while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient. With an Apache license, it can be used in both personal projects and production environments. ...