Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Just a few years ago, realistic local speech generation seemed unimaginable. Today, its quality is exceptional and, crucially, it delivers these results without compromising privacy. The video above showcases audio generated from a sample text, running entirely on the local machine previously discussed in the GTX 1080 Ti for Local LLM article. While this machine has a dedicated GPU, the GPU is fully reserved for LLM inference and the speech synthesis is powered entirely by the CPU. The mo...