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feat(tts): add Chinese to Kokoro - #1557

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Description

  • Bumps phonemis to v0.3.2 (Mandarin G2P matching misaki's Kokoro v1.0).
  • Adds models.textToSpeech.KOKORO.ZH (XNNPACK + Core ML) with 7 of the 8 upstream zf_*/zm_* voices; zf_xiaoni is unintelligible in upstream PyTorch Kokoro too. Voices and the zh lexicon/segmenter are on HF v0.11.0.
  • Adds Chinese to the speech app's Kokoro screen.

Introduces a breaking change?

  • Yes
  • No

Type of change

  • Bug fix (change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (change which adds functionality)
  • Documentation update (improves or adds clarity to existing documentation)
  • Other (chores, tests, code style improvements etc.)

Tested on

  • iOS
  • Android

Testing instructions

  • yarn workspace react-native-executorch test and scripts/run-native-tests.sh -R Phonemizer.
  • Speech app > Kokoro > Chinese, synthesize the sample text.

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Related issues

Closes #1502

Checklist

  • I have performed a self-review of my code
  • I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
  • I have updated the documentation accordingly
  • My changes generate no new warnings

Additional notes

Bumps phonemis to v0.3.2, which adds a Mandarin G2P matching misaki's Kokoro v1.0, and adds models.textToSpeech.KOKORO.ZH with the 8 upstream zh voices.
@msluszniak msluszniak self-assigned this Oct 21, 2026
@msluszniak msluszniak added the feature PRs that implement a new feature label Oct 21, 2026
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msluszniak requested a review from barhanc October 21, 2026 13:54
It is unintelligible in the reference PyTorch model too (Whisper CER ~0.53 vs <=0.03 for the other voices).
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msluszniak deleted the @ms/kokoro-chinese branch October 21, 2026 15:59
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xgiovio commented Oct 21, 2026

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any eta to release this? thanks

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@xgiovio yes, it will be released with v0.11.0 which is planned for Oct 27th.

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Add support to Chinese in Kokoro

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