Built on shared work
Credits & references
Kenkui brings together open software, research, and recorded voices. These are the works behind the project and the samples you hear here.
- Pocket-TTS · Kyutai
- The CPU speech-synthesis engine used by Kenkui.
- Kyutai voice prompts
- The source prompts used to compile the Kenkui voice catalog.
- CSTR VCTK Corpus 0.92
- Junichi Yamagishi, Christophe Veaux and Kirsten MacDonald, University of Edinburgh. Source of the 47 voices auditioned here; CC BY 4.0. Prompts were compiled into speaker embeddings and used to synthesize these recordings.
- EARS dataset
- An additional source in the wider Kenkui catalog, under CC BY-NC 4.0. EARS voices are not included in this site’s auditions.
- Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen
- Our example scene is an excerpt from chapter 1. Narrator: Vivienne (VCTK p231); Mrs Bennet: Beatrix (p233); Mr Bennet: Rex (p243). Read the original at Project Gutenberg.
- spaCy
- Local character discovery and language processing.
- LiteLLM
- The provider interface for language-model-based dialogue attribution.
- FFmpeg
- Audio encoding and packaging for the finished M4B audiobook.
The 47 voices auditioned here come from VCTK, licensed under CC BY 4.0, which permits commercial use subject to its conditions, including attribution. Hosted Studio selects this VCTK pack; the wider library also contains voices under different terms, including noncommercial licenses. Those other voices are not part of the hosted VCTK selection.
The library’s default commercial-use flag is conservative metadata, not a change to the source license or proof of speaker consent. Dataset copyright permission does not establish every privacy, publicity or personality right for every use. Voice selection alone is not a rights clearance. See the voice rights guide. Software licenses, voice rights and rights in an uploaded book are separate.