kokoro-tts
Local and self-hosted text-to-speech with Kokoro, the ~82M-parameter open-weight (Apache 2.0) model by hexgrad. Use when synthesizing speech offline, on-device, in the browser, or on your own server without per-character API cost — for high-volume narration, audiobooks, privacy-constrained pipelines, and prototyping. Covers running Kokoro via the Python `kokoro` package, ONNX / kokoro-js in the browser, and the OpenAI-compatible Kokoro-FastAPI wrapper; picking voices and language codes; blending voices; chunking long text; controlling pronunciation via misaki/espeak-ng; and judging when Kok
Profile →npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill kokoro-tts --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Kokoro TTS (open-weight, self-hosted) Kokoro is a small, fast, permissively licensed text-to-speech model. Its entire value proposition is that you run it yourself: no API key, no per-character billing, no audio leaving your machine. This skill helps an agent decide whether Kokoro fits a job, run it through the right runtime, and get acceptable output — and, just as importantly, recognize the jo
What does the kokoro-tts skill do?
Local and self-hosted text-to-speech with Kokoro, the ~82M-parameter open-weight (Apache 2.0) model by hexgrad. Use when synthesizing speech offline, on-device, in the browser, or on your own server without per-character API cost — for high-volume narration, audiobooks, privacy-constrained pipelines, and prototyping. Covers running Kokoro via the Python `kokoro` package, ONNX / kokoro-js in the browser, and the OpenAI-compatible Kokoro-FastAPI wrapper; picking voices and language codes; blending voices; chunking long text; controlling pronunciation via misaki/espeak-ng; and judging when Kok
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill kokoro-tts --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From calesthio/generative-media-skills, a repository with 112 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.