hexgrad: Kokoro 82M

Kokoro 82M is a lightweight, open-weight text-to-speech model from hexgrad. It converts text to speech across 8 languages (American and British English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese) using 54 preset voices organized by language and gender. At 82M parameters, it is well-suited for multilingual TTS deployments where footprint and cost efficiency matter.