diff --git a/packages/inference/src/providers/replicate.ts b/packages/inference/src/providers/replicate.ts
index 0bfeddfa8..cd55c2c3e 100644
--- a/packages/inference/src/providers/replicate.ts
+++ b/packages/inference/src/providers/replicate.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ export const REPLICATE_SUPPORTED_MODEL_IDS: ProviderMapping<ReplicateId> = {
 			"stability-ai/sdxl:7762fd07cf82c948538e41f63f77d685e02b063e37e496e96eefd46c929f9bdc",
 	},
 	"text-to-speech": {
-		"OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.3-500M": "jbilcke/oute-tts:39a59319327b27327fa3095149c5a746e7f2aee18c75055c3368237a6503cd26",
+		"OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.3-500M": "jbilcke/oute-tts:3c645149db020c85d080e2f8cfe482a0e68189a922cde964fa9e80fb179191f3",
+		"hexgrad/Kokoro-82M": "jaaari/kokoro-82m:dfdf537ba482b029e0a761699e6f55e9162cfd159270bfe0e44857caa5f275a6",
 	},
 	"text-to-video": {
 		"genmo/mochi-1-preview": "genmoai/mochi-1:1944af04d098ef69bed7f9d335d102e652203f268ec4aaa2d836f6217217e460",
diff --git a/packages/inference/src/tasks/audio/textToSpeech.ts b/packages/inference/src/tasks/audio/textToSpeech.ts
index d981ae7c8..153ed648f 100644
--- a/packages/inference/src/tasks/audio/textToSpeech.ts
+++ b/packages/inference/src/tasks/audio/textToSpeech.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import type { TextToSpeechInput } from "@huggingface/tasks";
 import { InferenceOutputError } from "../../lib/InferenceOutputError";
 import type { BaseArgs, Options } from "../../types";
+import { omit } from "../../utils/omit";
 import { request } from "../custom/request";
-
 type TextToSpeechArgs = BaseArgs & TextToSpeechInput;
 
 interface OutputUrlTextToSpeechGeneration {
@@ -13,7 +13,16 @@ interface OutputUrlTextToSpeechGeneration {
  * Recommended model: espnet/kan-bayashi_ljspeech_vits
  */
 export async function textToSpeech(args: TextToSpeechArgs, options?: Options): Promise<Blob> {
-	const res = await request<Blob | OutputUrlTextToSpeechGeneration>(args, {
+	// Replicate models expects "text" instead of "inputs"
+	const payload =
+		args.provider === "replicate"
+			? {
+					...omit(args, ["inputs", "parameters"]),
+					...args.parameters,
+					text: args.inputs,
+			  }
+			: args;
+	const res = await request<Blob | OutputUrlTextToSpeechGeneration>(payload, {
 		...options,
 		taskHint: "text-to-speech",
 	});
diff --git a/packages/inference/src/types.ts b/packages/inference/src/types.ts
index 1f5e6b863..613786028 100644
--- a/packages/inference/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/inference/src/types.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-import type { PipelineType } from "@huggingface/tasks";
-import type { ChatCompletionInput } from "@huggingface/tasks";
+import type { ChatCompletionInput, PipelineType } from "@huggingface/tasks";
 
 /**
  * HF model id, like "meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct"
@@ -88,6 +87,7 @@ export type RequestArgs = BaseArgs &
 		| { data: Blob | ArrayBuffer }
 		| { inputs: unknown }
 		| { prompt: string }
+		| { text: string }
 		| { audio_url: string }
 		| ChatCompletionInput
 	) & {
diff --git a/packages/inference/test/HfInference.spec.ts b/packages/inference/test/HfInference.spec.ts
index 04deb0be4..df2538286 100644
--- a/packages/inference/test/HfInference.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/inference/test/HfInference.spec.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-import { expect, it, describe, assert } from "vitest";
+import { assert, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import type { ChatCompletionStreamOutput } from "@huggingface/tasks";
 
 import { chatCompletion, FAL_AI_SUPPORTED_MODEL_IDS, HfInference } from "../src";
-import "./vcr";
-import { readTestFile } from "./test-files";
 import { textToVideo } from "../src/tasks/cv/textToVideo";
+import { readTestFile } from "./test-files";
+import "./vcr";
 
 const TIMEOUT = 60000 * 3;
 const env = import.meta.env;
@@ -939,11 +939,21 @@ describe.concurrent("HfInference", () => {
 				expect(res).toBeInstanceOf(Blob);
 			});
 
-			it("textToSpeech OuteTTS", async () => {
+			it.skip("textToSpeech OuteTTS -  usually Cold", async () => {
 				const res = await client.textToSpeech({
 					model: "OuteAI/OuteTTS-0.3-500M",
 					provider: "replicate",
-					inputs: "OuteTTS is a frontier TTS model for its size of 1 Billion parameters",
+					text: "OuteTTS is a frontier TTS model for its size of 1 Billion parameters",
+				});
+
+				expect(res).toBeInstanceOf(Blob);
+			});
+
+			it("textToSpeech Kokoro", async () => {
+				const res = await client.textToSpeech({
+					model: "hexgrad/Kokoro-82M",
+					provider: "replicate",
+					text: "Kokoro is a frontier TTS model for its size of 1 Billion parameters",
 				});
 
 				expect(res).toBeInstanceOf(Blob);