From 680c5b04ccd9553b9f9328e138baf1e8ba191fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian <bhetherman@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 11:43:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Pre-download the spacy model that kokoro needs at runtime

---
 Dockerfile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 131ba56..cc27cba 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ RUN python3.11 -m pip install --no-cache-dir \
 COPY requirements.txt .
 RUN python3.11 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
+# Pre-download the spacy model that kokoro needs at runtime
+RUN python3.11 -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+
 COPY . .
 
 EXPOSE 8000