Show HN: Portable Kokoro TTS binary with g2p, normalizer, lexicon, and guesser

Category: ai-ml

Tags: text-to-speech, cpp, simd, inference-engine, g2p

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

A standalone C++ inference engine for Kokoro-82M text-to-speech that runs on CPU with SIMD optimizations via Google Highway, achieving ~2x speedup over PyTorch. It bundles a custom English G2P (grapheme-to-phoneme) system with lexicon, tagger, and guesser, all in a single binary with no Python or espeak dependencies.

Target audience: backend devs, embedded/edge developers, AI engineers

Repository: https://github.com/RobViren/kokoallovero · C++ · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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