Can I use Kokoro-82M commercially in a game?

Can you ship a game made with Kokoro-82M? A pricing page names a commercial license. The terms quoted beside it may narrow that. The model card says Kokoro is Apache-licensed, has been deployed in commercial APIs, and the author welcomes real-world deployments.

The commercial-use, ownership, license caveat, and Steam disclosure rows for Kokoro-82M. The summary below is generated from verified rows only. It is not legal advice.

Can I ship it?

Summary, not a quote

A pricing page names a commercial license. The terms quoted beside it may narrow that.

The model card says Kokoro was trained only on permissive or non-copyrighted audio and IPA phoneme labels.
Kokoro's README installs espeak-ng for English out-of-dictionary fallback and some non-English languages. espeak-ng is released under GPL v3 or later, so check how your build bundles it.
Voice lines you generate during development and ship are Pre-Generated AI content on Steam. If the game synthesizes speech at runtime, the Live-Generated rules apply too.

Sourced rows

Apache-licensed, used commercially

Commercial useVerified

The model card says Kokoro is Apache-licensed, has been deployed in commercial APIs, and the author welcomes real-world deployments.

This is an Apache-licensed model, and Kokoro has been deployed in numerous projects and commercial APIs. We welcome the deployment of the model in real use cases.

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Ownership of outputs

Ownership of outputsUnverified

Unverified. No verbatim quote is stored for this row.

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Training data

License caveatVerified

The model card says Kokoro was trained only on permissive or non-copyrighted audio and IPA phoneme labels.

Kokoro was trained exclusively on permissive/non-copyrighted audio data and IPA phoneme labels.

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espeak-ng dependency is GPL

License caveatVerified

Kokoro's README installs espeak-ng for English out-of-dictionary fallback and some non-English languages. espeak-ng is released under GPL v3 or later, so check how your build bundles it.

eSpeak NG Text-to-Speech is released under the GPL version 3 or later license.

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Steam AI disclosure

Steam disclosureVerified

Voice lines you generate during development and ship are Pre-Generated AI content on Steam. If the game synthesizes speech at runtime, the Live-Generated rules apply too.

Pre-Generated: Any kind of content that ships with your game and is consumed by players that is created with the help of AI tools during development.

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Commercial use of alternatives

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Can I use Piper commercially? — Commercial terms are only partly verified. This is not a yes.
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