Kokoro-82M-bf16
- Task
- Text to speech
- Category
- Audio
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Yes
Permissive license: commercial use is allowed; keep the copyright and license notice. - Size
- About 82 million parameters
- Memory to load
- ~1 GB (estimate)
- Format
- MLX
- Runs on
- CPU
- Access
- Open download
- Downloads (last 30 days)
- 73.5K
- Likes
- 67
- Last updated
- December 2, 2025
How to run it
This is an MLX build for Apple silicon Macs; run it with Apple's MLX framework (mlx-lm for language models).
Plan for roughly 1 GB of memory to load it (our estimate from its size and format).
The model card on Hugging Face has the exact usage code.
Related text to speech models
Data from Hugging Face's public API, last checked October 19, 2026. Downloads are Hugging Face's count for the last 30 days.