---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- de
pipeline_tag: text-to-speech
library_name: sherpa-onnx
base_model: Godelaune/Kokoro-82M-ONNX-German-Martin
tags:
- onnx
- kokoro
- sherpa-onnx
- text-to-speech
- german
- single-speaker
---

# Kokoro German "Martin" — sherpa-onnx package

The German Kokoro voice **Martin**, repackaged for **[sherpa-onnx](https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx)**
so it runs as **fully offline, on-device** German text-to-speech.

> **Note:** audio samples are temporarily removed while a phoneme-rendering issue is fixed —
> the bundled `espeak-ng-data` emits the German ich-laut /ç/ decomposed, so some words
> (`ich`, `-lich`, `-ig`) don't render cleanly yet. Fix in progress.

## What's in the archive

`kokoro-de-martin.tar.bz2` is everything sherpa-onnx's Kokoro TTS needs:

- `model.onnx` — the Martin ONNX with sherpa-onnx metadata injected (`model_type=kokoro`,
  `sample_rate=24000`, `style_dim=510,1,256`, `n_speakers=1`, `id2speaker=0->martin`, …)
- `voices.bin` — the voice style vector (510×1×256 float32)
- `tokens.txt` and `espeak-ng-data/`

## Reading German correctly (the quality layer)

A good voice is only half the story — the phonemes it's given have to be right. Both Kokoro and
Piper phonemize German with **espeak-ng**, so any word espeak's G2P gets wrong is mispronounced by
*every* espeak-based voice. Two reproducible, open pieces sit on top of this voice:

- **Pronunciation-correction lexicon.** An audit of espeak-ng against the **WikiPron** (Wiktionary)
  dictionary across ~**49k** German words folds away espeak's *systematic* conventions (which the
  models render correctly) and turns the remaining *word-specific* errors into a sherpa-onnx Kokoro
  lexicon (**2,000+ entries**) plus a corrected espeak `de_dict`. Word **stress** is corrected from
  Wiktionary — top-5k error rate **6.8% → 1.6%**. English anglicisms/names get Germanized too.
- **Language-aware text normalization.** Numbers, dates, currency and ordinals are expanded to
  spoken German — e.g. **„680 000" → „sechshundertachtzigtausend"** (not „…achtzig null"),
  „24. Juni" → „vierundzwanzigsten Juni" — surviving OCR line-wraps.

Both are built by reproducible tooling (an espeak-vs-WikiPron audit + a Kokoro-lexicon generator,
and this repackager) rather than hand-editing.

## Provenance & license

**Apache-2.0**, inherited from upstream. This is a **repackaging**, not a new training run:

- ONNX source: [Godelaune/Kokoro-82M-ONNX-German-Martin](https://huggingface.co/Godelaune/Kokoro-82M-ONNX-German-Martin)
- Fine-tune: [kikiri-tts/kikiri-german-martin](https://huggingface.co/kikiri-tts/kikiri-german-martin)
  (Martin Harbecke voice, StyleTTS2)
- Architecture: [hexgrad/Kokoro-82M](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M)
- `tokens.txt` + `espeak-ng-data/`: k2-fsa sherpa-onnx Kokoro release

## How it was built

Reproducibly, by the `martin-repackage` build chain: inject the sherpa-onnx Kokoro metadata,
convert the voice `.npz` to `voices.bin`, and assemble the archive. A `verify` step loads it with
sherpa-onnx and synthesizes a German clip to confirm it works before publishing.

## Usage

Extract `kokoro-de-martin.tar.bz2` and point sherpa-onnx's Kokoro config at `model.onnx`,
`voices.bin`, `tokens.txt`, and `espeak-ng-data/` with `lang=de` (add the German lexicon for the
corrected pronunciations).