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Kokoro

Kokoro is an open-weight audio or speech model from mlx-community, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Audio mlx-community 1 variants 80k downloads/mo
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About

What Kokoro is

mlx-community/Kokoro-82M-bf16 This model was converted to MLX format from [hexagrad/Kokoro-82M]() using mlx-audio version 0.0.1. Refer to the original model card for more details on the model. Use with mlx

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makermlx-community
TypeAudio & music
Variants1
Runs withmlx
Based onyl4579/StyleTTS2-LJSpeech
Released2025-02-28
Popularity80k downloads / month
Likes66
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Kokoro-82M-bf16BF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys mlx-community-kokoro for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (mlx-community-kokoro below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="mlx-community-kokoro" -F file=@audio.mp3

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

mlx text-to-speech en

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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