Kokoro

What Kokoro does

Small open-weight text to speech model (82 million parameters, Apache license) with 54 voices in 8 languages in v1.0. Lightweight, so it runs fast and cheap. It is listed in our Voice & Dialogue category.

Pricing and free tier

Kokoro is listed as free. Plans change often, so confirm on the official site before you pay.

Best use for beginner game devs

We rate Kokoro 2/5 for beginners, which makes it better suited to experienced developers than to a first project. Free and light, but needs Python or a notebook to run. There is an online demo to try voices first.

Best for: Free narration and short NPC lines you can use commercially, once you are comfortable running a Python notebook.

Alternatives to Kokoro

• ElevenLabs (Freemium, beginner rating 5/5): Realistic AI voices for character dialogue, plus sound effect generation.
• Fish Audio (Freemium, beginner rating 4/5): Text to speech and voice cloning with a big library of expressive character voices.
• Murf AI (Freemium, beginner rating 4/5): Text to speech studio with many voices for narration and dialogue.
• Narakeet (pricing unknown, beginner rating 4/5): Turns scripts into voiceover audio files in many voices and languages.
• Uberduck (Freemium, beginner rating 4/5): AI voices and text to speech for characters, vocals and quick dialogue tests.

See every option on the Voice & Dialogue page.