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 jobs where Kokoro will disappoint the user and something else is the correct answer.

All version, license, voice-count, ranking, and performance facts below were verified on 2026-07-10 against the sources listed at the end. Treat them as volatile.

What Kokoro is (documented facts)