Love Kokoro tts. I wrote https://github.com/Jud/kokoro-coreml to try pushing the limits a bit on speed & size. Such great quality at a given size. As others have mentioned short utterances are problematic, but solvable.
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
#22Anyone know which local TTS is best, close to Eleven Labs quality?
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#23I spent a day fiddling with AI and dropping the expensive layers in kokoro, on phones, on CPU, on MNN, it runs 3x faster.
Quality is very close.
Will vary in your setup, but here is my script: https://github.com/DavidVentura/translator-rs/blob/master/sc...
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#24Anyone know which local TTS is best, close to Eleven Labs quality?
F5-TTS
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#25curious to know if it comes with audio tags?
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#26Both Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text now have local models that are good enough to get the job done. Kokoro for TTS, Parakeet for STT and Fluid-1 for text formatting (I use it with FluidVoice). I hope this is a trend that continues for other applications.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#27A couple months back I wrote a chrome extension that does this on any webpage, with simultaneous highlighting of the sentence being read. Skips both the container launching step and the copy pasting website contents step. Might be useful to anyone trying to use kokoro ergonomically.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/local-reader-ai-on-...
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#28I use kokoro with home assistant and its great. I find its the most natural sounding and small too.
I speak over sonos speakers when certain events happen. And use it as my voice assistant.
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#29https://github.com/rhulha/StreamingKokoroJS all in browser, 100% private, nothing tracked
Re: Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
#30On macOS I've been using piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) to announce claude code notifications and it works perfectly!