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Kokoro preset voice · American English

Kokoro af_sky: Sky

Sky is a high, light American female preset with a lot of energy. It was trained on less data than most voices, so it is best kept to short, upbeat lines.

  • Female
  • American English
  • Grade C-
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Voice facts

Voice ID
af_sky
Accent
American English
Gender
Female
Official grade
C-
Tone
High, energetic character voice
Target quality / training data
B / M minutes

Where Sky fits

Good for

  • Game and animation scratch lines
  • Short playful social posts
  • Notification sounds and prompts

Pick another voice for

  • Serious or long narration
  • Professional training content

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_sky --lang_code a

With the kokoro Python package:

from kokoro import KPipeline
pipeline = KPipeline(lang_code="a")
for _, _, audio in pipeline("Hello from Kokoro.", voice="af_sky"):
    ...

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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