Kokoro preset voice · British English
Kokoro bm_daniel: Daniel
Daniel is a formal British male preset with a clipped, dignified tone. It suits short, formal lines; test it carefully on longer scripts given its lower grade.
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Voice facts
- Voice ID
bm_daniel- Accent
- British English
- Gender
- Male
- Official grade
- D
- Tone
- Formal, dignified voice
- Target quality / training data
- C / MM minutes
Where Daniel fits
Good for
- Formal announcements
- Butler or official character lines
- Short corporate intros
Pick another voice for
- Long audiobooks
- Relaxed conversational 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 bm_daniel --lang_code bWith the kokoro Python package:
from kokoro import KPipeline
pipeline = KPipeline(lang_code="b")
for _, _, audio in pipeline("Hello from Kokoro.", voice="bm_daniel"):
...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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