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Kokoro can now clone any voice with just ~600 MB of extra VRAM!

While looking for audio models, I came across OpenVoice. It's getting pretty old, but surprisingly still ranks high on TTS leaderboards. What caught my attention was its design: essentially TTS + voice conversion . The ToneColorConverter can run independently of the TTS model. That got me thinking:…

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  1. 2026-10-29 16:59 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Kokoro can now clone any voice with just ~600 MB of extra VRAM!

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