Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
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Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#2> Apple M2 Pro: 4.5 seconds
> AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS: 1.5 seconds
These two can probably do it much faster on their iGPUs.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#3kokoro is decent but pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts
the onnx version of pocket-tts does perform better. https://huggingface.co/KevinAHM/pocket-tts-onnx
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#4kokoro is decent but pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts the onnx version of pocket-tts does perform better. https://huggingface.co/KevinAHM/pocket-tts-onnx
I've found that for CPU inference the PyTorch-based (non-quantized) version of Pocket TTS actually performs (both speed and quality-wise) better than the ONNX version, even after fiddling with all of the knobs that ONNX provides.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#5I'm using exactly this TTS engine for my intercom door system I built. The quality of the TTS is very good.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#6kokoro is decent but pocket-tts is much better especially when you rip a good voice. https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts the onnx version of pocket-tts does perform better. https://huggingface.co/KevinAHM/pocket-tts-onnx
I've found that for CPU inference the PyTorch-based (non-quantized) version of Pocket TTS actually performs (both speed and quality-wise) better than the ONNX version, even after fiddling with all of the knobs that ONNX provides.
i found the exact opposite, the pytorch version on the cpu barely does over 2 times realtime while i can get the onnx int8 version to reach 5x.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#7kokoro is surprisingly great at nuance but it's tough to improve that last ~2% or so. kokoro + rvc is really great too; i use that for ELEMENT47, the LLM-centric comedy podcast i do that i wish more people would listen to. (e47.net , feel free to subscribe!)
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#8Any good debian-ish distros that integrate TTS and STT in a usable shell?
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#9kokoro is very nice, but I am disappointed that this wasn't an announcement of a new kokoro version.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#10I'm using Kokoro for a fun little side-project browser-based game I'm working on. It's legitimately super good for being only 85mb (for the wasm version) or 300mb (for the webgpu version).