Kokoro TTS

️ 🖼Tool name: Kokoro TTS

🔖 Tool category: Text-to-speech/speech-to-text, voice cloning, integrations and APIs, automation and smart agents

️ ✏What does this tool offer?
Kokoro TTS is an AI-powered speech processing platform that delivers amazing human-like voice quality using a compact model (82M parameters). It is designed to be very fast and can be run locally without the need for an internet connection,making it ideal for developers, content creators, and researchers. The tool allows you to convert text (medical, legal, creative) into natural speech with multiple global accents, with the ability to mix voices and create unique tones. It also supports the division of long content (such as e-books) and processes it intelligently to provide a smooth, non-mechanical listening experience.

⭐ What does it actually offer based on user experience?

• Users have described it as a "technical miracle" for its high-quality, free audio.

• Low latency response in voice chat applications.

• Ideal for producing audiobooks thanks to its support for EPUB and PDF files and its ability to read continuously without interruption.

• Supports voice mixing and the creation of custom voice tones.

🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes, it supports full automation via CLI and API,with the ability to automatically convert thousands of documents and support live streaming for real-time interaction.

💰 Pricing model: Open source and open-weight model

🆓 Free plan details:

• Completely free (Apache-2.0) for personal or commercial use.

• No restrictions on the number of characters or minutes when running locally.

💳 Paid plan details:

• There are no paid plans for the tool itself.

• If used as a cloud service through third-party providers such as Together AI or DeepInfra, the cost in 2026 is approximately $0.60 per million characters, which is 95% cheaper than major competitors.

🧭 How to access the tool:

• Experimental interface via kokorotts.io or Hugging Face.

• Can be installed via pip (pip install kokoro-tts) or via Docker.

🔗 Trial link or official website:
https://kokorotts.io/