Kokoro preset voice · American English
Kokoro af_nova: Nova
Nova is a bright, friendly American female voice that sounds conversational rather than announcer-like. It works best on short, informal copy where energy matters more than polish.
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Voice facts
- Voice ID
af_nova- Accent
- American English
- Gender
- Female
- Official grade
- C
- Tone
- Bright, friendly conversational voice
- Target quality / training data
- B / MM minutes
Where Nova fits
Good for
- Social clips and short reels
- App onboarding and tips
- Casual explainers
Pick another voice for
- Formal corporate narration
- Long chapters
Grades and training data come from the model author’s Kokoro-82M VOICES.md, checked November 5, 2026. The sample above was generated with this preset; your result depends on the script and speed setting.
Use the same voice ID in code
The preset name is the same in the open source Kokoro tools. With MLX-Audio on Apple Silicon:
mlx_audio.tts.generate --model mlx-community/Kokoro-82M-bf16 \
--text "Hello from Kokoro." --voice af_nova --lang_code aWith the kokoro Python package:
from kokoro import KPipeline
pipeline = KPipeline(lang_code="a")
for _, _, audio in pipeline("Hello from Kokoro.", voice="af_nova"):
...The first letter of the ID sets the accent (a American, b British) and the second sets the speaker (f female, m male). The language code must match.
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