Kokoro 82M — Backpack Voice Package
Lightweight local text-to-speech with a curated set of voices. This package stages immutable upstream artifacts for Backpack's voice runtime layer. It does not replace the chat model selected by the user.
Package
| Field | Value |
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| Capability | text-to-speech |
| Input | text |
| Output | audio |
| Parameters | 82000000 |
| Runtime | kokoro |
| Configured runtime revision | kokoro==0.9.4;en_core_web_sm==3.8.0 |
| Format | pytorch |
| Precision | F32 |
| Primary artifact | kokoro-v1_0.pth |
| Total packaged-file size | 314.1 MiB |
| Recommended RAM | 1.88 GB |
| Languages | multilingual |
Validation status
The packager verified the immutable revision, selected-file inventory, non-empty files, hashes, configuration JSON, and the primary artifact container/header. It also loaded the package and passed deterministic audio inference with the configured runtime.
| Integrity | Metadata | Runtime load | Audio inference | Tokenizer | |---|---|---|---| | passed | passed | passed | passed | passed |
Run with Kokoro
Install kokoro==0.9.4, construct KModel from config.json and kokoro-v1_0.pth,
then pass one of the packaged voices/*.pt files to KPipeline.
Provenance
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Upstream: hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
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Immutable revision:
f3ff3571791e39611d31c381e3a41a3af07b4987 -
License:
apache-2.0 -
Backpack copied the selected upstream artifacts without modifying model weights.
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Backpack did not train this model and does not claim ownership of it.
Files and checksums
config.json— 2.3 KiB —5abb01e2403b072bf03d04fde160443e209d7a0dad49a423be15196b9b43c17fkokoro-v1_0.pth— 312.1 MiB —496dba118d1a58f5f3db2efc88dbdc216e0483fc89fe6e47ee1f2c53f18ad1e4voices/af_heart.pt— 511.2 KiB —0ab5709b8ffab19bfd849cd11d98f75b60af7733253ad0d67b12382a102cb4ffvoices/am_michael.pt— 511.2 KiB —9a443b79a4b22489a5b0ab7c651a0bcd1a30bef675c28333f06971abbd47bd37voices/bf_emma.pt— 511.2 KiB —d0a423deabf4a52b4f49318c51742c54e21bb89bbbe9a12141e7758ddb5da701voices/bm_george.pt— 511.2 KiB —f1bc812213dc59774769e5c80004b13eeb79bd78130b11b2d7f934542dab811b
Review the upstream model card and license before use or redistribution. Speech systems can mis-transcribe, synthesize misleading content, or behave differently across languages and accents.