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title: "Kokoro am_eric voice: Eric (American English) sample | Murmur"
description: "Hear the Kokoro am_eric preset, a male American English voice. See its official grade, what it suits, and how to use it offline on Mac and Windows."
canonical: "https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-am-eric"
---
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Kokoro preset voice · American English

# Kokoro *am_eric*: Eric

Eric is a lower, slower American male preset that suits a calm, serious read. Kokoro rates it lower than the headline voices, so audition it on your exact script and keep sentences short.

Sample

- Male
- American English
- Grade D
- Free plan

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Voice facts

**Voice ID**

`am_eric`

**Accent**

American English

**Gender**

Male

**Official grade**

D

**Tone**

Deep, measured narrator

**Target quality / training data**

C / MM minutes

## Where Eric fits

### Good for

- Calm documentary-style lines
- Short announcements
- Scratch narration for timing a video edit

### Pick another voice for

- Hour-long audiobooks
- Scripts dense with names and numbers

Grades and training data come from the model author’s [Kokoro-82M VOICES.md](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/VOICES.md), checked November 5, 2026. The sample above was generated with this preset; your result depends on the script and speed setting.

## Use am_eric in Murmur

1. Download Murmur for Mac or the Windows beta. Kokoro ships with the app.
2. Open Create Speech, choose Kokoro and pick **Eric** (am_eric).
3. Paste your script, generate on your own computer and export the audio.

The free plan includes 3,000 Kokoro characters a day, so you can test this voice on a real script before you buy. Runs locally and works offline.

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## 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 am_eric --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="am_eric"):
    ...
```

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.

## Other Kokoro voice profiles

- [BellaWarm, professional narratorAmerican English · af_bella · grade A-](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-af-bella)
- [NovaBright, friendly conversational voiceAmerican English · af_nova · grade C](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-af-nova)
- [MichaelClear, confident business voiceAmerican English · am_michael · grade C+](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-am-michael)
- [SkyHigh, energetic character voiceAmerican English · af_sky · grade C-](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-af-sky)
- [OnyxDeep, authoritative voiceAmerican English · am_onyx · grade D](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-am-onyx)
- [LilySoft, gentle young voiceBritish English · bf_lily · grade D](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-bf-lily)
- [GeorgeCalm, measured voiceBritish English · bm_george · grade C](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-bm-george)
- [DanielFormal, dignified voiceBritish English · bm_daniel · grade D](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-bm-daniel)
- [EmmaPolite, earnest young voiceBritish English · bf_emma · grade B-](https://www.murmurtts.com/voices/kokoro-bf-emma)

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