Donation/funding for german language

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Task: Donation/funding for german language

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Hi there,

tl;dr: click on opire link to add funding/donation for german language.

I) Motivation for german language in kokoro

I.1) Kokoro is best quality openweight TTS

See, e.g. the leaderboards:

• https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/leaderboard?open-weights=true
• https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena
• https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena-V2

I.2) Kokoro is efficient (and fast, CPU only possible)

It can be run on CPU using streaming. Most of the even lesser openweight competitors use much more resources or may need a graphics card to even run the ai models (while still beeing less good).

The current 10 top openweight tts on artificialanalysis are not suitable (see comparison table, using ai searches).

Comparison table

#	Model	Typical hardware requirements (inference)	CPU real‑time viability*	German support (out‑of‑the‑box)**
1	Kokoro 82M v1.0	Very small (~tens of M params). Runs on CPU or small GPU (≈2–4 GB VRAM).	High – real‑time or near real‑time on a modern CPU.	Unclear / probably no official DE voice in base models.
2	Fish Speech 1.5	Medium–large; GPU strongly recommended (≈10–12 GB VRAM for smooth use).	Low – CPU works but far from real‑time.	No clear German support; mainly EN/zh focus.
3	Maya1	Large multi‑billion‑param model; needs high‑end GPU (≥16 GB VRAM).	Very low – practical real‑time on CPU not expected.	Unclear – no solid public info about German at cutoff.
4	Chatterbox	Several variants; Multilingual / Turbo ≈few‑hundred‑M params; GPU (≈8 GB) recommended, CPU possible.	Medium – Turbo/distilled variant can approach RT on a strong CPU; full multilingual is slower.	Yes – multilingual checkpoints explicitly include German.
5	Zonos‑v0.1	Medium–large; designed for GPU inference (≈8 GB+ VRAM recommended).	Very low – CPU inference is slow, not interactive.	No – appears E