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 "title": "Speed up Kokoro on an Apple Silicon Mac",
 "page_title": "How to speed up Kokoro on an Apple Silicon Mac with Kokoro",
 "summary": "Enable MPS fallback so Kokoro uses the Mac GPU.",
 "who": "A Mac user generating long audio locally.",
 "problem": "CPU-only generation is slow for long scripts.",
 "outcome": "Faster local generation on M1 to M4 Macs.",
 "steps": [
  "Install Kokoro with pip",
  "Write your Kokoro script, for example run-your-kokoro-script.py",
  "Run it with `PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK=1 python run-your-kokoro-script.py`",
  "If dependencies conflict, use the conda environment.yml from the README"
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 "time": "15 minutes",
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 "lang": "javascript",
 "requirements": [
  "Python with pip (the README conda file uses Python 3.9)",
  "espeak-ng installed for fallback and some languages",
  "Optional: an Apple Silicon Mac for MPS acceleration"
 ],
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   "notice": "This tip applies only to Apple Silicon Macs."
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