xybrid-ai/Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX

Kokoro-82M TTS Model

High-quality text-to-speech model with 82M parameters and 24 voices (American/British English).

Model Variants

FP16 is the default - best balance of quality and size (45% smaller than FP32).

Download Model Files

# FP16 model (recommended default - 169MB)
wget https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx/releases/download/model-files-v1.0/kokoro-v1.0.fp16.onnx

# Voice embeddings (required)
wget https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx/releases/download/model-files-v1.0/voices-v1.0.bin
mv voices-v1.0.bin voices.bin

# Misaki dictionaries (for MisakiDictionary backend - default)
mkdir -p misaki
wget -O misaki/us_gold.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hexgrad/misaki/refs/heads/main/misaki/resources/en/us_gold.json
wget -O misaki/us_silver.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hexgrad/misaki/refs/heads/main/misaki/resources/en/us_silver.json

# Optional: INT8 for mobile (88MB, 72% smaller)
wget https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx/releases/download/model-files-v1.0/kokoro-v1.0.int8.onnx

# Optional: FP32 for reference (310MB)
wget https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx/releases/download/model-files-v1.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx

Switching Variants

To use a different variant, update model_metadata.json:

{
  "execution_template": {
    "type": "SimpleMode",
    "model_file": "kokoro-v1.0.fp16.onnx"  // or .int8.onnx or .onnx
  }
}

Phonemization Backends

Kokoro requires text-to-phoneme conversion before audio synthesis. Xybrid supports multiple backends:

MisakiDictionary (Default)

Zero external dependencies - uses dictionary lookup for phonemization.

{
  "preprocessing": [{
    "type": "Phonemize",
    "backend": "MisakiDictionary",
    "tokens_file": "tokens.txt"
  }]
}

Pros:

• No system dependencies - works on mobile/embedded
• Fast dictionary lookup
• Self-contained deployment

Cons:

• May not handle unusual words/names perfectly
• Falls back to basic phonemization for out-of-vocabulary words

Required files (included):

• misaki/us_gold.json (2.9MB) - High-confidence dictionary
• misaki/us_silver.json (3.0MB) - Extended vocabulary

EspeakNG (Alternative)

Uses the espeak-ng system command for phonemization.

{
  "preprocessing": [{
    "type": "Phonemize",
    "backend": "EspeakNG",
    "language": "en-us",
    "tokens_file": "tokens.txt"
  }]
}

Pros:

• Higher quality phonemization
• Better handling of unusual words, numbers, abbreviations

Cons:

• Requires espeak-ng installed on the system
• Not suitable for mobile/embedded deployment

Installation:

# macOS
brew install espeak-ng

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt-get install espeak-ng

# Windows
# Download from https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/releases

Switching Backends

Update model_metadata.json to change the phonemization backend:

{
  "preprocessing": [{
    "type": "Phonemize",
    "backend": "MisakiDictionary",  // or "EspeakNG"
    "tokens_file": "tokens.txt"
  }]
}

Available Voices

Voice naming convention: {region}{gender}_{name}

• Region: a = American, b = British
• Gender: f = Female, m = Male

Usage

Run through xybrid execution system:

use xybrid_core::template_executor::TemplateExecutor;

let executor = TemplateExecutor::from_metadata_file("test_models/kokoro-82m/model_metadata.json")?;
let audio = executor.run_text("Hello, world!")?;

License

Apache-2.0

Source

• Model: Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX
• ONNX conversion: thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx
• Misaki G2P: hexgrad/misaki
• Rust reference: lucasjinreal/Kokoros