Readl — Kokoro TTS Desktop

Electron app that synthesizes speech locally using Kokoro-82M via the Kokoro.js Node runtime (ONNX on CPU).

Features

• Paste plain text or a URL (auto-fetches website and shows preview)
• Pick voice, language, and speed
• Audio is saved to disk; play from disk and manage recordings
• Open local HTML/TXT/PDF files
• See a sanitized, formatted preview; text is auto-extracted for TTS. When input is HTML or a website URL, the app attempts to parse the page using a Reader Mode extractor (Mozilla Readability) to focus on the main article content. If Reader Mode fails, it falls back to sanitized full-page text.
• When token-level alignment is available, the preview highlights each spoken word in sync with playback

Quick Start

See Development Guide for full setup instructions.

# 1. Build Kokoro.js
cd kokoro.js && npm install && npm run build

# 2. Run Electron App
cd ../electron-app && npm install && npm start

Documentation

• Architecture & Technical Notes - Details on internal design, HTML sanitization, Reader Mode, and PDF handling.
• Development Guide - Setup, build, run, and usage instructions.

Reference

• Kokoro TTS: https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro