Kokoro (British English)AI text to speech
Kokoro's British English voices. On Leap, it sits beside 174 other models in one studio.
- Text to speech
- No subscription
- Every top model, one account
- Pay per run, priced before it starts
Listen / Feral marrows on the allotment
0 / 8 s
Read the transcript
Right. The marrows have gone feral again. If anyone asks, the slugs started it, and I simply finished it.
AI text to speech
Kokoro (British English) at a glance
Kokoro (British English) is a text-to-speech model from hexgrad. It makes speech from your text.
- Made by
- hexgrad
- Makes
- Speech
- Starts from
- Your text
- Voices
- 8 to choose from
- Text
- Up to 1,000 characters
- Price per run
- $0.027
- Updated
- October 3, 2026
- 01Write the words, pick a voice
- 02See the exact price, then press go
- 03Keep it in your library, or take it further
Pick the right one
Kokoro (British English) and its siblings
| Model | Best for | Price per run |
|---|---|---|
| Kokoro (British English) (this page) | Kokoro's British English voices. | $0.027 |
| Kokoro (American English) | A small open-weight voice model: natural speech for little. | $0.027 |
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Questions
Kokoro (British English), answered
- What is Kokoro (British English)?
- Kokoro (British English) is a text-to-speech model from hexgrad. Kokoro's British English voices. On Leap it runs in one studio beside every other top model, with one account.
- Which voices can I use?
- 8 voices, among them Bf alice, Bf emma, Bf isabella, Bf lily and Bm daniel. You can hear each one in the studio before you run it.
- How much text can it read in one run?
- Up to 1,000 characters. You pay for the characters you send, with the price shown before you press go.
- How is it different from Kokoro (American English)?
- Kokoro (British English): Kokoro's British English voices. Kokoro (American English): A small open-weight voice model: natural speech for little. They all run in the same studio, so you can try one prompt on each.
- How much does a run cost?
- A run costs $0.027. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.
- Is Kokoro (British English) free to try?
- No. There is no free credit: you add credit from $5, and your first top-up has no card fee. The cheapest run is $0.027 (a run), so $5 covers 185 of those. You pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.
- Can I use what I make commercially?
- Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
- Is there an API?
- Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as hexgrad/kokoro-british-english, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.
- Do I need a hexgrad account?
- No. Leap sends your request to hexgrad's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs Kokoro (British English) and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.
Your idea, Kokoro (British English).
Every run shows its price before it starts, and one that fails costs nothing.
Make it with Kokoro (British English)For developers
Run Kokoro (British English) from code
- Model ID
- hexgrad/kokoro-british-english
- Makes
- Voice and sound
- Pricing
- Per run, quoted first: POST /v1/quotes
Inputs
What the model takes. Leave out anything with a default.
Texttext
Text, up to 1,000 characters, required
Voicevoice
Bf alice, Bf emma, Bf isabella, Bf lily, Bm daniel, Bm fable, Bm george, Bm lewis. Default: Bf alice
Speedsettings.speed
0.1 to 5. Default: 1Speed of the generated audio.
The request
The same envelope for every model; only the model and its input change. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the run finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID. Agents can call it through the MCP server at app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp.
curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \ -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -H "prefer: wait=60" \ -d '{ "model": "hexgrad/kokoro-british-english", "input": { "text": "Right. The marrows have gone feral again. If anyone asks, the slugs started it, and I simply finished it." } }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"