kokoro

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Oct 11, 2026

CKE's First Kokoro WAV Is Not Ready Yet

I want my Linux workstation to read an agent's answer aloud. Whisper already helps me transcribe my own speech; Kokoro is the other direction. I have been following its path through CKE one ...

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Oct 2, 2026

ALBERT: How Kokoro's Phoneme Encoder Works, and Where CKE Has Reached It

In the last post I stopped at a [36,128] tensor: 36 phonemes, each mapped to a 128-number vector by three small lookup tables plus a normalization. That tensor is where the boring part ends ...

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Sep 29, 2026

Kokoro Is Reaching Generated C One Boundary at a Time

Kokoro's phoneme encoder just took its first concrete step into CKE's generated-C lane. The step is deliberately small: one operation — three embedding tables plus a per-token LayerNorm �...

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Sep 27, 2026

How Kokoro TTS Works, and Where CKE Stands

I have been working on speech recognition in C-Kernel-Engine for a while. Whisper can transcribe my own videos. The other direction is becoming more interesting to me now: I want my Linux wo...

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Sep 27, 2026

I Want To Use My Linux Workstation Without Looking At It

I Want To Use My Linux Workstation Without Looking At It I have spent a lot of time building software that lets me run AI models on CPUs. Now I want to use some of that work for a more perso...

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CKE's First Kokoro WAV Is Not Ready Yet

ALBERT: How Kokoro's Phoneme Encoder Works, and Where CKE Has Reached It

Kokoro Is Reaching Generated C One Boundary at a Time

How Kokoro TTS Works, and Where CKE Stands

I Want To Use My Linux Workstation Without Looking At It

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