Summary
Since Off Grid already uses Kokoro ONNX, adding the German model as an optional downloadable TTS model (similar to how Whisper models are offered in different sizes) would give German-speaking users a proper on-device TTS experience.
Problem / Motivation
Currently, Kokoro TTS in Off Grid only supports English voices. Probably German TTS would require integrating a separate fine-tuned model, since the standard voices-v1.0.bin does not include German voices and the built-in phonemizer lacks German support.
Proposed Solution
Fortunately, the community has already done the heavy lifting:
- Kokoro-82M-ONNX-German-Martin — a ready-to-use ONNX export of the kikiri-german-martin voice, with German text normalization included. Same Kokoro-82M architecture, so inference integration should be very similar to the existing English pipeline.
- kikiri-tts — the upstream project with multiple German voices fine-tuned on Kokoro.
Use case: Running Off Grid as a fully offline German AI assistant — currently STT (Whisper) works great in German, but TTS output is English-only, breaking the German-language workflow.
Thank you for considering this!
Platform
Summary
Since Off Grid already uses Kokoro ONNX, adding the German model as an optional downloadable TTS model (similar to how Whisper models are offered in different sizes) would give German-speaking users a proper on-device TTS experience.
Problem / Motivation
Currently, Kokoro TTS in Off Grid only supports English voices. Probably German TTS would require integrating a separate fine-tuned model, since the standard voices-v1.0.bin does not include German voices and the built-in phonemizer lacks German support.
Proposed Solution
Fortunately, the community has already done the heavy lifting:
Use case: Running Off Grid as a fully offline German AI assistant — currently STT (Whisper) works great in German, but TTS output is English-only, breaking the German-language workflow.
Thank you for considering this!
Platform