Kokoro 82M Serverless API
Text-to-speech with 54 multilingual voices.
POST /v2/kokoro-82m · submit + poll 1# pip install "segmind>=1.1.0"
2# export SEGMIND_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
3import segmind
4
5# Async (v2): submit to the queue and block until COMPLETED.
6# run() returns the final result dict (600s deadline, 1.0s poll by default).
7result = segmind.run(
8 "kokoro-82m",
9 text="The morning sun rose over the quiet harbor as the fishing boats drifted out to sea, their sails catching the first golden light of a brand new day.",
10 voice="af_heart",
11 speed=1,
12 format="wav",
13)
14print(result["status"]) # COMPLETED
15print(result.get("output")) # model output (e.g. media URL)
16print(result["metrics"]["inference_time"]) # server compute seconds
17
18# --- Or submit + poll manually (track request_id, control the cadence) ---
19from segmind import SegmindClient, InferenceFailed, InferenceTimeout
20
21client = SegmindClient() # reads SEGMIND_API_KEY
22payload = {
23 "text": "The morning sun rose over the quiet harbor as the fishing boats drifted out to sea, their sails catching the first golden light of a brand new day.",
24 "voice": "af_heart",
25 "speed": 1,
26 "format": "wav",
27}
28job = client.submit_async("kokoro-82m", **payload)
29print(job.request_id) # available immediately
30try:
31 result = job.wait(timeout=600, interval=1.0)
32except InferenceTimeout as e:
33 print("still running:", e.request_id)
34except InferenceFailed as e:
35 print("failed:", e.detail) 1# pip install "segmind>=1.1.0"
2# export SEGMIND_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
3import segmind
4
5# Async (v2): submit to the queue and block until COMPLETED.
6# run() returns the final result dict (600s deadline, 1.0s poll by default).
7result = segmind.run(
8 "kokoro-82m",
9 text="The morning sun rose over the quiet harbor as the fishing boats drifted out to sea, their sails catching the first golden light of a brand new day.",
10 voice="af_heart",
11 speed=1,
12 format="wav",
13)
14print(result["status"]) # COMPLETED
15print(result.get("output")) # model output (e.g. media URL)
16print(result["metrics"]["inference_time"]) # server compute seconds
17
18# --- Or submit + poll manually (track request_id, control the cadence) ---
19from segmind import SegmindClient, InferenceFailed, InferenceTimeout
20
21client = SegmindClient() # reads SEGMIND_API_KEY
22payload = {
23 "text": "The morning sun rose over the quiet harbor as the fishing boats drifted out to sea, their sails catching the first golden light of a brand new day.",
24 "voice": "af_heart",
25 "speed": 1,
26 "format": "wav",
27}
28job = client.submit_async("kokoro-82m", **payload)
29print(job.request_id) # available immediately
30try:
31 result = job.wait(timeout=600, interval=1.0)
32except InferenceTimeout as e:
33 print("still running:", e.request_id)
34except InferenceFailed as e:
35 print("failed:", e.detail)API Endpoint
https://api.segmind.com/v1/kokoro-82mParameters
textrequiredstringThe text to speak. Up to 5,000 characters; billing is per character.
"Kokoro is an open-weight text to speech model with eighty-two million parameters. It runs fast enough to narrate a whole article in about a second."base64optionalbooleanfalseformatoptionalstringAudio container of the returned file.
"wav""wav""mp3"speedoptionalnumberPlayback rate of the generated speech. 1.0 is the model's natural pace.
1Range: 0.5 - 2voiceoptionalstringVoice to speak with. The voice also selects the language — 54 voices across 9 languages.
"af_heart""af_heart""af_bella""af_nicole""af_aoede""af_kore""af_sarah""af_alloy""af_nova""af_sky""af_jessica"Response Type
Returns: Audio
Asynchronous requests (v2)
Use Async for video, long-running (>~60s), or high-concurrency workloads; Sync is simplest for fast image & LLM calls. Async submits a request and you poll it to completion.
- 1
POST /v2/kokoro-82mSubmit — returns request_id, status_url, response_url
- 2
GET /v2/requests/{id}/statusPoll — until COMPLETED or FAILED
- 3
GET /v2/requests/{id}Result — final response body
Status states
- A FAILED request is served as HTTP 422 — the body still carries the error detail.
- An unknown or expired request_id returns HTTP 404.
- Results are retained for 1 hour, then expire.
- Content / RAI blocks surface as FAILED, not a separate state.
- Track completion by polling the status endpoint.
Common Error Codes
The API returns standard HTTP status codes. Detailed error messages are provided in the response body.
Bad Request
Invalid parameters or request format
Unauthorized
Missing or invalid API key
Forbidden
Insufficient permissions
Not Found
Model or endpoint not found
Insufficient Credits
Not enough credits to process request
Rate Limited
Too many requests
Server Error
Internal server error
Bad Gateway
Service temporarily unavailable
Timeout
Request timed out