Model reference · open weights
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.
About
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
| Maker | mlx-community |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | mlx |
| Based on | yl4579/StyleTTS2-LJSpeech |
| Released | 2025-02-28 |
| Popularity | 80k downloads / month |
| Likes | 66 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
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.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kokoro-82M-bf16 | — | BF16 | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
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
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Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗