Kokoro 82M is a lightweight, open-weight text-to-speech model from hexgrad. It converts text to speech across 8 languages (American and British English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese) using 54 preset voices organized by language and gender. At 82M parameters, it is well-suited for multilingual TTS deployments where footprint and cost efficiency matter.
Modalities
Price
$0.62per 1M characters
Context
4K
Weekly Tokens
2.1M
Released
Apr 23, 2026
OpenRouter provides a text-to-speech API that converts text into natural-sounding audio. Send text and a voice selection, and receive raw audio bytes in your chosen format.
The response is a raw audio stream (not JSON). The generation ID is returned in the X-Generation-Id response header for tracking.
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.