Kokoro Reader

Purpose: Listening to web articles and selected text aloud with a locally running Kokoro text-to-speech engine.

Inferred · not functionally tested

Audience: Firefox users who want local text-to-speech for web content

Inferred · not functionally tested

Functions: voice_synthesis

Inferred · not functionally tested

Interfaces: API: unknown · MCP: unknown · CLI: unknown · Self-hosting: indicated (inferred, not tested)

Recorded constraints: pricing: free · license: Apache-2.0 · platforms: WEB · deployment: browser, embeddable, self_hosted

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Record sources: addons.mozilla.org · addons.mozilla.org · github.com. These links do not verify the individual claims.

Kokoro Reader is a Text to speech project. Inferred · not functionally tested: It focuses on listening to web articles and selected text aloud with a locally running Kokoro text-to-speech engine. Inferred · not functionally tested: Kokoro Reader is a consumer product aimed at firefox users who want local text-to-speech for web content. Basis unknown · not verified: Kokoro Reader costs nothing to use. Basis unknown · not verified: It runs on the web and embeddable surfaces, and it can be self-hosted.

It is developed by Orion Pax, and it first shipped in 2024. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 5.4k stars and 146 commits in the last 90 days. Inferred · not functionally tested: Key capabilities include dark mode, voice mixer, and text selection reading. The interface is available in 32 languages, including Czech, German, and Greek.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.