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 ls ./outputs/simple-greetings
 ```
 
+### Offline Use
+
+Each of the [voices below](#voices) need to be downloaded once the first time they are used, and this needs an online connection. Subsequent runs can be done offline.
+
 ### Voices
 
 You can choose a voice to use with the `--voice` flag. For this, we use [kokoro](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M), which is an Apache-licensed model. See [all available voices](https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/VOICES.md).