--- title: "Kokoro Text-to-Speech (WebGPU)" kind: "Kit" category: "Productivity" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/36564f95-9b3e-4afc-b692-e8cc4e3e17b3" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # Kokoro Text-to-Speech (WebGPU) > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Runs the Kokoro text-to-speech model in your browser with WebGPU, so typed text is read aloud. For anyone who wants to hear the model or learn from a browser speech demo. Kokoro Text-to-Speech (WebGPU) is a kit in the Productivity category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by webml-community ## About ### What it is This Space runs the Kokoro text-to-speech model in your browser, using WebGPU and Transformers.js. You type text and the model reads it aloud. The Space is a static page, and the model it names is the 82M ONNX build of Kokoro. ### Who it suits People who want to hear what a small speech model sounds like, and web developers who want a browser-only text-to-speech example to learn from. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Web development | Front-end developers | Study how a speech model runs inside a web page | Reading the React and Vite demo's code | | Education | Teachers and students | Hear a passage read aloud | Pasting a short paragraph and listening to it | | Accessibility | Content makers | Check how text sounds when spoken | Listening to a draft before publishing it | You can skip it if your browser has no WebGPU support, since the model needs it to run. ### Where to use it - A web browser, on the Space's own page at Hugging Face - A browser with WebGPU, for a local copy of the page - A copy of the files on your own computer, using Python to download them on Windows, macOS or Linux | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Hear text read aloud | Anyone with a browser | Speech made by the Kokoro model from the text they type | | Learn the code | Web developers | A small React and Vite app that runs Kokoro through Transformers.js | ### How to set it up - A browser, if you only use the Space online - Python and pip, to download the Space's files - npm, only if you follow the README's dev-server route 1. Open the Space's page on Hugging Face to use it online. Nothing needs installing. 2. To keep the files, install the huggingface\_hub package and download the Space's files. 3. Move into the new folder and open index.html in a web browser. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download webml-community/kokoro-webgpu --repo-type space --local-dir kokoro-webgpu cd kokoro-webgpu ``` For the README's route, clone the Kokoro repository from GitHub, then run these commands from inside its folder. ```sh cd kokoro/kokoro.js/demo npm i npm run dev ``` The README then says to open the local address it names, on port 5173, in your browser. ### How to use it Open the page and type the text you want spoken, then start the speech with the page's controls. The model runs in your browser, so you hear the result there. The first run may take a moment while the model files load. | Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | npm run dev | Starts the development server for the demo | | index.html | The page you open in a browser after downloading the Space's files | ### Example You open the page, type a short sentence and start the speech. After the model loads, you hear the sentence read aloud in the browser. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new to this, open the Space and have it read one short sentence. You need nothing beyond a browser that supports WebGPU. For experts, the app is a simple React and Vite project that loads Kokoro through Transformers.js and the ONNX build named onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-ONNX. Inference happens client-side on the GPU the browser exposes. The trade-off is browser support, since WebGPU is not available everywhere. Open the page → Type the text to speak → Transformers.js loads the Kokoro model → The model runs in your browser → You hear the speech ### Good to know - Built as a static page, with index.html as the entry point - License: apache-2 - Cost to run: none named - Data it reaches: model files loaded from Hugging Face, and the text you type ## README ````markdown # Kokoro Text-to-Speech (WebGPU) Runs the Kokoro text-to-speech model in your browser with WebGPU, so typed text is read aloud. For anyone who wants to hear the model or learn from a browser speech demo. Made by webml-community on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: This Space runs the Kokoro text-to-speech model in your browser, using WebGPU and Transformers.js. You type text and the model reads it aloud. The Space is a static page, and the model it names is the 82M ONNX build of Kokoro. Who it suits: People who want to hear what a small speech model sounds like, and web developers who want a browser-only text-to-speech example to learn from. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Web development | Front-end developers | Study how a speech model runs inside a web page | Reading the React and Vite demo's code Education | Teachers and students | Hear a passage read aloud | Pasting a short paragraph and listening to it Accessibility | Content makers | Check how text sounds when spoken | Listening to a draft before publishing it ``` You can skip it if your browser has no WebGPU support, since the model needs it to run. Where to use it: - A web browser, on the Space's own page at Hugging Face - A browser with WebGPU, for a local copy of the page - A copy of the files on your own computer, using Python to download them on Windows, macOS or Linux ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Hear text read aloud | Anyone with a browser | Speech made by the Kokoro model from the text they type Learn the code | Web developers | A small React and Vite app that runs Kokoro through Transformers.js ``` How to set it up: - A browser, if you only use the Space online - Python and pip, to download the Space's files - npm, only if you follow the README's dev-server route 1. Open the Space's page on Hugging Face to use it online. Nothing needs installing. 2. To keep the files, install the huggingface_hub package and download the Space's files. 3. Move into the new folder and open index.html in a web browser. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download webml-community/kokoro-webgpu --repo-type space --local-dir kokoro-webgpu cd kokoro-webgpu ``` For the README's route, clone the Kokoro repository from GitHub, then run these commands from inside its folder. ```sh cd kokoro/kokoro.js/demo npm i npm run dev ``` The README then says to open the local address it names, on port 5173, in your browser. How to use it: Open the page and type the text you want spoken, then start the speech with the page's controls. The model runs in your browser, so you hear the result there. The first run may take a moment while the model files load. ```table Tool | What it does npm run dev | Starts the development server for the demo index.html | The page you open in a browser after downloading the Space's files ``` Example: You open the page, type a short sentence and start the speech. After the model loads, you hear the sentence read aloud in the browser. For newcomers and experts: If you are new to this, open the Space and have it read one short sentence. You need nothing beyond a browser that supports WebGPU. For experts, the app is a simple React and Vite project that loads Kokoro through Transformers.js and the ONNX build named onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-ONNX. Inference happens client-side on the GPU the browser exposes. The trade-off is browser support, since WebGPU is not available everywhere. ```flow Open the page Type the text to speak Transformers.js loads the Kokoro model The model runs in your browser You hear the speech ``` Good to know: - Built as a static page, with index.html as the entry point - License: apache-2 - Cost to run: none named - Data it reaches: model files loaded from Hugging Face, and the text you type ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Likes: 369 - Built with: static - License: apache-2.0 ## Links - Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu - Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu/tree/main ## Try it Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 4 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 4 KB ``` ## Source [webml-community/kokoro-webgpu on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face Spaces in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Likes | Built with | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Kokoro Text-to-Speech (WebGPU) (this page) | 369 | static | apache-2.0 | 2025-02-07 | | [DALL·E mini](https://mindket.com/p/b8ab8352-f6b8-40b8-88c6-979249c0c9a5) | 5,750 | static | apache-2.0 | 2025-08-15 | | [DALL·E mini by flax-community](https://mindket.com/p/e6eb151b-ffc3-43e4-bc6c-32f3d2f4d406) | 342 | static | apache-2.0 | 2022-07-19 | | [Supertonic 3 (TTS)](https://mindket.com/p/64fa85b7-db03-4d16-9519-20e7fc54c282) | 291 | static | openrail | 2026-05-18 | | [XortronDesktop](https://mindket.com/p/22e87219-d97a-4109-81bd-4e7dbc8faa2f) | 30 | static | wtfpl | 2026-03-18 | | [AI Image Upscaler](https://mindket.com/p/5874734c-f9ea-4fee-ab71-02d0925a47eb) | 21 | static | mit | 2026-11-09 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, on 2026-11-12. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-12. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · xenova · 2025-02-07](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973769): Kokoro WebGPU: Real-time text-to-speech 100% locally in the browser - [Hacker News · franga2000 · 2025-07-16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44579782): Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141: I found this quite impressive: https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu It also works without WebGPU, just very slowly. - [Hacker News · yawnxyz · 2025-02-12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023071): ElevenReader by ElevenLabs: all server-side you could build your local TTS using kokoro browser though — https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2025-02-07 - First published: 2025-02-07 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? 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