Kokoro
How vibe coders and indie builders use Kokoro: 19 projects shared since May 2026 were built with it.
How these numbers are counted and compared: the method.
Summary
19 projects shared since May 2026 were built with Kokoro, 10 of them in the last 12 weeks. In the last 4 weeks it appeared in 0.1% of the projects that said what they were built with. There are too few projects in the last 12 weeks to call a trend yet. The tools most often named alongside it are OpenAI API, Whisper and Groq. The most-discussed project of the last 4 weeks is AmaNous (3 comments). It reads imported documents and web articles aloud using on-device text-to-speech voices, with word highlighting and saved listening position.
Projects built with it
19
Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
0.1%
Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, each week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- OpenAI API 5
- Whisper 5
- Groq 4
- Ollama 4
- Claude Code 3
- Codex 3
- Gemini API 3
- Python 3
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Kokoro
- AmaNous — Reads imported documents and web articles aloud using on-device text-to-speech voices, with word highlighting and saved listening position.“I made an offline Text-to-Speech reader because others are too expensive. All 29 voices, unlimited hours, core forever free”
- JustAddVoice — Generates local text-to-speech voiceovers, word-level animated captions, and stock B-roll scene plans for video on the user's own desktop.“I got tired of 30 month SaaS video editors with credit limits, so I spent 8 months building a local desktop app with a lifetime license”
- PCS - Personal Continuity System — Stores a user's memories, notes and materials locally in an encrypted vault and feeds that shared context to multiple AI models.“I built a small AI app because I got tired of losing continuity every time I changed models”
- ScriptStudio — Turns a written script into an editable video using local AI narration, video, and music generation plus a timeline editor.“I’m building ScriptStudio, an open-source local AI video studio — looking for feedback”
- Repodify — Turns a set of podcast episodes into one shorter, chronological synthetic episode by transcribing, summarizing, and re-voicing them locally or via API keys.“I wanted to learn ML history from old podcasts & I got tired of 40 hours of back-catalog podcasts, so I built Repodify (local / BYOK, open source)”
- NovelForge — Reads web novels and ebooks on Android with auto-detected character codex, relationship graph, neural text-to-speech, and audiobook export.“I built an Android novel reader with an auto-generated character codex, relationship graph, and Kokoro/Piper TTS”
- mmahingu.ai — Runs downloadable open-source language models and speech engines fully offline on a phone for voice chat, document analysis, and dictation.“Vibecoded a Fully Offline AI VOICE CHAT App - mmahingu.ai”
- DemoTape — Records screen and webcam footage and lets a coding agent turn the recording into a finished demo video with narration and captions.“I built DemoTape: a screen recorder your coding agent can use to make demos for you and it still runs on Monterey/Intel Macs”
- Kindle KOReader AI reading helper — Translates and explains a paragraph from an e-book using a local LLM, and generates pronunciation audio for playback on a Kindle.“Translate, explanation and pronunciation with IA in Kindle”
- mtgacoach — Gives real-time AI coaching advice during Magic: The Gathering Arena matches, with spoken recommendations and a game-state dashboard.“Gemini 3.6 Flash is a BEAST... Refactored a complex 50k+ LOC MTG Arena AI codebase in 1 session with Gemini 3.6 Flash (24 commits pushed, 0 broken builds)”
- OpenLive — Runs a real-time voice pipeline locally, handling voice detection, speech-to-text and speech output on the device, and sends transcripts and optional screen or camera frames to a chosen language model.“I built an open-source alternative to ElevenLabs, Gemini Live, and OpenAI Realtime. It's called OpenLive.”
- OpenVision — Connects Meta Ray-Ban glasses to AI assistants that run on-device or in the cloud, with wake-word voice queries, face recognition, and web search.“I built a free, open-source iOS app that turns Meta Ray-Ban glasses into an AI assistant (on-device or cloud)”
- EbookAloud — Converts EPUB ebooks into chaptered audiobook files using AI voice narration.“EbookAloud”
- Built a voice AI support agent — Handles customer support calls about late food deliveries by checking order data and issuing partial or full refunds via a real-time voice agent.“Built a voice AI support agent”
- btfo.lol — Pairs two users in a video rap battle where an AI judge transcribes and scores their verses.“I made an rap battle judge and it has no chill”