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feat: add German (de) language support
semidark Apr 17, 2026
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feat: use dedicated DEG2P for German instead of generic espeak fallback
semidark Apr 17, 2026
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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions kokoro.js/src/voices.js
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Expand Up @@ -312,6 +312,22 @@ export const VOICES = Object.freeze({
// targetQuality: "C",
// overallGrade: "D",
// },
// df_anna: {
// name: "anna",
// language: "de",
// gender: "Female",
// traits: "🚺",
// targetQuality: "C",
// overallGrade: "D",
// },
// dm_daniel: {
// name: "daniel",
// language: "de",
// gender: "Male",
// traits: "🚹",
// targetQuality: "C",
// overallGrade: "D",
// },
// ef_dora: {
// name: "dora",
// language: "es",
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions kokoro/__main__.py
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languages = [
"a", # American English
"b", # British English
"d", # German
"h", # Hindi
"e", # Spanish
"f", # French
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions kokoro/pipeline.py
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ALIASES = {
'en-us': 'a',
'en-gb': 'b',
'de': 'd',
'es': 'e',
'fr-fr': 'f',
'hi': 'h',
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b='British English',

# espeak-ng
d='de',
e='es',
f='fr-fr',
h='hi',
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except ImportError:
logger.error("You need to `pip install misaki[zh]` to use lang_code='z'")
raise
elif lang_code == 'd':
try:
from misaki import de
self.g2p = de.DEG2P()
except ImportError:
logger.error("You need to `pip install misaki[de]` to use lang_code='d'")
raise
else:
language = LANG_CODES[lang_code]
logger.warning(f"Using EspeakG2P(language='{language}'). Chunking logic not yet implemented, so long texts may be truncated unless you split them with '\\n'.")
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