Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
Summary
The article presents Kokoro, a local CPU-based TTS solution with 82M parameters that runs entirely on the host machine for privacy. It describes a containerized deployment (Kokoro-FastAPI), a simple web UI, an OpenAI-compatible API, and performance benchmarks across CPUs. It also compares Kokoro with Speaches as an alternative for integrated TTS and STT capabilities.