Kokoro.js

Runs the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model in the browser or Node.js.

Files, images and media npm Apache-2.0 Text to speech

Website GitHub npm

Used in agent projects

0.0% of 4,818 JS/TS repos built with AI coding agents; 5 counting our dependency samples

Gid Score

46 /100

#1957 of 3,794 tools, #130 in files, images and media · ranking

In the catalog because

Editors' pick

a standard tool for text to speech, too rare in our project count to rank

Downloads

167K

npm, last 7 days, kokoro-js

GitHub stars

9,510

1,058 forks · last push Aug 6, 2025

How Kokoro.js is used

AgentGid editors added Kokoro.js to the catalog as a well-known library for text to speech. In our scan it appears in 5 public GitHub projects, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents, so there is too little project data to rank it against the tools people use most. Projects that use it most often also use Transformers.js (80.0%), Prettier (80.0%), ts-node (60.0%).

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Kokoro.js popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

Kokoro.js: downloads per weeknpm, kokoro-js 166,789

Kokoro.js: GitHub starshexgrad/kokoro 9,510

Gid Score 46: downloads 47, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 49, downloads trend 100 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with Kokoro.js

Transformers.js	80.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 198.7× more than average
Prettier	80.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 3.8× more than average
ts-node	60.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 12.6× more than average
Google Generative AI	60.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 22.0× more than average
dotenv	60.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 3.9× more than average
TypeScript	100.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 1.8× more than average
ESLint	80.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 2.2× more than average
CodeMirror	40.0% of Kokoro.js projects · 57.7× more than average

How Kokoro.js is funded

Most funded tools

GitHub Sponsors

@hexgrad	4 current sponsors

GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Kokoro.

Ways to fund Kokoro.js

GitHub Sponsors

As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.

Install

Package	`npm install kokoro-js`
Main stacks	TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Python (1)
Example projects	tsensei/OpenReels, snakajima/ai-podcaster, Hive-Academy/ptah-extension

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