Kokoro German — Kerstin (df_kerstin)
A German female voice for Kokoro-82M.
Trained with kikiri-tts on the
Kerstin dataset.
Use with Crane
Use voices/df_kerstin.bin. Copy it into Crane's voice directory of Kokoro.
Crane picks it up automatically.
Use with Python
Use voices/df_kerstin.pt.
uv run kokoro --text "Hallo, ich bin Kerstin." -o output.wav -l d --voice df_kerstin
Or:
from kokoro import KModel, KPipeline
model = KModel()
pipeline = KPipeline(lang_code="d", model=model)
for result in pipeline("Hallo, ich bin Kerstin.", voice="voices/df_kerstin.pt"):
print(result.audio)
Developer files
This repo also includes the raw training checkpoints:
data/kikiri_german_kerstin_stage1_ep10.pth— Stage 1 checkpoint. Decoder, alignment, and vocoder. Final epoch.data/kikiri_german_kerstin_stage2_ep10.pth— Stage 2 checkpoint. Prosody predictor, trained with a WavLM adversarial loss. Final epoch. Thevoices/files were extracted from this checkpoint.
Most users don't need these. They're here for continuing training, extracting a different voicepack variant, or inspecting the model.
License
Apache 2.0. Matches Kokoro-82M and kikiri-tts.
The Kerstin training dataset is CC0-1.0.