OpenAI TTS Too Expensive? Switch to Kokoro in 2 Lines of Code

If you're using OpenAI's text-to-speech API, you're paying $15 per million characters. Kokoro generates speech that sounds just as natural - for $0.77 per million characters. That's roughly 20x less. You don't need to rewrite anything. Kokoro runs through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on deAPI. Change base_url and api_key, keep the rest of your code identical. This tutorial walks through the switch, covers voice options, and shows what else opens up once you're on deAPI - including voice cloning and voice design from a text description.