I was excited to see this repository because I was trying out Kokoro in my homelab a few weeks ago as an API service with FastAPI. I really liked the experience and was able to get it working as the TTS voice of the OpenWebUI instance I also run locally.

I especially liked that I was able to generate arbitrary strings of text at speeds consistently far below realtime without using third-party compute: no Internet necessary and importantly no third-parties logging everything I use it for (which as an Autistic person with ADHD is a lot of things).

This repository takes that even further: this can run Kokoro within a browser and using GPU acceleration if available. Although most of my ideas for speech synthesis make best sense outside of a browser environment, it's definitely exciting to see this kind of thing is possible.