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akhaliq/Ming-Kokoro-82M

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New, unvetted: created or first seen in the last few days, not from a trusted org and not past the signal threshold yet.

Ming-Kokoro-82M is an 82M-parameter, 12-voice English text-to-speech model distilled from inclusionAI/Ming-omni-tts-0.5B (teacher) into the Kokoro-82M architecture (student, warm-started from its weights). Dense, 82M params. License: apache-2.0.

Org
akhaliq
Released
2026-10-28
Status
just landed · new, unvetted
License
apache-2.0 (permissive)
Parameters
82M
Architecture
dense
Task
text-to-speech · audio
Signal
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Runs on

estimate from params; need = weights + FP16 KV cache for 8K tokens + 1GB. A sizing calculation, not tested.

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