sahilmahendrakar / paradee
An 8M-parameter English text-to-speech model distilled from Kokoro-82M. 9 MB, runs 18x real time on one CPU thread.
Why this job: says: text to speech; topics: text-to-speech, tts
What it does
Paradee is a small text-to-speech model. It has 7.88M parameters and is distilled from Kokoro-82M, and it speaks eight of Kokoro's voices in four languages:
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 6 days ago
- Stars
- 226
- +25 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v1.3
- Released today
- Built with
- Python
- 99% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 3
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 50% closed
- 5 still open
- Pull requests
- 1 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 4
- 3 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 99%
- JavaScript 1%
Topics
- distillation
- kokoro
- onnx
- text-to-speech
- tts
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits17
- Forks37
- Watching3
- Stars in 28 days+163
- CreatedSep 25, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026