whatmodel.sh / tts / Vokan

Vokan is an open-weights text-to-speech model from ShoukanLabs, released March 2024. Licence: mit.

Catalogue identity notes

ShoukanLabs/Vokan, a StyleTTS 2 fine-tune.

47.6±14.4comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The text-to-speech models ranked either side of Vokan, out of 148 with a score.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
89SILMA TTS v1 SILMA AI48±10local~2.7GB2026-03
90FireRedTTS (v1) FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)48±3local~3.1GB2024-09
91Vokan ShoukanLabs48±14comparison only2024-03
92Orpheus TTS 3B 0.1 (finetune-prod) Canopy Labs47±5api $15.00/M chars +local~2.4GB2025-03
93Kyutai TTS 1.6B en/fr Kyutai47±5local~4.1GB2025-07

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$ what it's good at

other tests1 not in a task · 17% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
TTSDS v1 · default four-factor score84.5% ✎▂▂····▃·▃▅▂█ beats 5/14very easy · avg 86%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%blunt

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/ShoukanLabs ↗

$ how the score was worked out · TTSDS v1 published results 17%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
TTSDS v1 published results1▇▇▇▇▇ 17%MIT
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 83%
weighted average= 47.6

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