diff --git a/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/KokoroTtsManager.swift b/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/KokoroTtsManager.swift
index 5e932a248..b70f160c6 100644
--- a/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/KokoroTtsManager.swift
+++ b/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/KokoroTtsManager.swift
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Foundation
 import OSLog
+@preconcurrency import CoreML
 
 /// Manages text-to-speech synthesis using Kokoro CoreML models.
 ///
@@ -12,6 +13,12 @@ import OSLog
 /// try await manager.initialize()
 /// let audioData = try await manager.synthesize(text: "Hello, world!")
 /// ```
+///
+/// On iOS 26+, use `.cpuAndGPU` to work around ANE compiler regressions:
+/// ```swift
+/// let manager = KokoroTtsManager(computeUnits: .cpuAndGPU)
+/// try await manager.initialize()
+/// ```
 public final class KokoroTtsManager {
 
     private let logger = AppLogger(category: "KokoroTtsManager")
@@ -22,6 +29,7 @@ public final class KokoroTtsManager {
     private var isInitialized = false
     private var assetsReady = false
     private let directory: URL?
+    private let computeUnits: MLComputeUnits
     private var defaultVoice: String
     private var defaultSpeakerId: Int
     private var ensuredVoices: Set<String> = []
@@ -36,18 +44,24 @@ public final class KokoroTtsManager {
     ///   - defaultSpeakerId: Default speaker ID for multi-speaker voices.
     ///   - directory: Optional override for the base cache directory.
     ///     When `nil`, uses the default platform cache location.
-    ///   - modelCache: Cache for loaded CoreML models.
+    ///   - computeUnits: CoreML compute units for model compilation. Defaults to `.all`.
+    ///     Use `.cpuAndGPU` on iOS 26+ to work around ANE compiler regressions
+    ///     ("Cannot retrieve vector from IRValue format int32").
+    ///   - modelCache: Cache for loaded CoreML models. When `nil` (default),
+    ///     a cache is created using the provided `directory` and `computeUnits`.
     ///   - customLexicon: Optional custom pronunciation dictionary. Entries in this dictionary
     ///     take precedence over all built-in dictionaries and grapheme-to-phoneme conversion.
     public init(
         defaultVoice: String = TtsConstants.recommendedVoice,
         defaultSpeakerId: Int = 0,
         directory: URL? = nil,
-        modelCache: KokoroModelCache = KokoroModelCache(),
+        computeUnits: MLComputeUnits = .all,
+        modelCache: KokoroModelCache? = nil,
         customLexicon: TtsCustomLexicon? = nil
     ) {
         self.directory = directory
-        self.modelCache = directory != nil ? KokoroModelCache(directory: directory) : modelCache
+        self.computeUnits = computeUnits
+        self.modelCache = modelCache ?? KokoroModelCache(directory: directory, computeUnits: computeUnits)
         self.lexiconAssets = LexiconAssetManager()
         self.defaultVoice = Self.normalizeVoice(defaultVoice)
         self.defaultSpeakerId = defaultSpeakerId
@@ -58,12 +72,14 @@ public final class KokoroTtsManager {
         defaultVoice: String = TtsConstants.recommendedVoice,
         defaultSpeakerId: Int = 0,
         directory: URL? = nil,
-        modelCache: KokoroModelCache = KokoroModelCache(),
+        computeUnits: MLComputeUnits = .all,
+        modelCache: KokoroModelCache? = nil,
         lexiconAssets: LexiconAssetManager,
         customLexicon: TtsCustomLexicon? = nil
     ) {
         self.directory = directory
-        self.modelCache = directory != nil ? KokoroModelCache(directory: directory) : modelCache
+        self.computeUnits = computeUnits
+        self.modelCache = modelCache ?? KokoroModelCache(directory: directory, computeUnits: computeUnits)
         self.lexiconAssets = lexiconAssets
         self.defaultVoice = Self.normalizeVoice(defaultVoice)
         self.defaultSpeakerId = defaultSpeakerId
@@ -90,7 +106,7 @@ public final class KokoroTtsManager {
     }
 
     public func initialize(preloadVoices: Set<String>? = nil) async throws {
-        let models = try await TtsModels.download(directory: directory)
+        let models = try await TtsModels.download(directory: directory, computeUnits: computeUnits)
         try await initialize(models: models, preloadVoices: preloadVoices)
     }
 
diff --git a/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/Pipeline/Preprocess/KokoroModelCache.swift b/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/Pipeline/Preprocess/KokoroModelCache.swift
index ceae7eca3..a3454b1fa 100644
--- a/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/Pipeline/Preprocess/KokoroModelCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/Kokoro/Pipeline/Preprocess/KokoroModelCache.swift
@@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ public actor KokoroModelCache {
     private var downloadedModels: [ModelNames.TTS.Variant: MLModel] = [:]
     private var referenceDimension: Int?
     private let directory: URL?
-
-    /// - Parameter directory: Optional override for the base cache directory.
-    ///   When `nil`, uses the default platform cache location.
-    public init(directory: URL? = nil) {
+    private let computeUnits: MLComputeUnits
+
+    /// - Parameters:
+    ///   - directory: Optional override for the base cache directory.
+    ///     When `nil`, uses the default platform cache location.
+    ///   - computeUnits: CoreML compute units for model compilation. Defaults to `.all`.
+    ///     Use `.cpuAndGPU` on iOS 26+ to work around ANE compiler regressions.
+    public init(directory: URL? = nil, computeUnits: MLComputeUnits = .all) {
         self.directory = directory
+        self.computeUnits = computeUnits
     }
 
     public func loadModelsIfNeeded(variants: Set<ModelNames.TTS.Variant>? = nil) async throws {
@@ -32,7 +37,7 @@ public actor KokoroModelCache {
 
         if !variantsNeedingDownload.isEmpty {
             let newlyDownloaded = try await TtsModels.download(
-                variants: Set(variantsNeedingDownload), directory: directory)
+                variants: Set(variantsNeedingDownload), directory: directory, computeUnits: computeUnits)
             for (variant, model) in newlyDownloaded.modelsByVariant {
                 downloadedModels[variant] = model
             }
diff --git a/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/TtsModels.swift b/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/TtsModels.swift
index 3d192d111..a808d04c2 100644
--- a/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/TtsModels.swift
+++ b/Sources/FluidAudio/TTS/TtsModels.swift
@@ -24,10 +24,20 @@ public struct TtsModels: Sendable {
         kokoroModels[variant]
     }
 
+    /// Downloads and compiles Kokoro CoreML models.
+    ///
+    /// - Parameters:
+    ///   - requestedVariants: Which model variants to download. Pass `nil` for all.
+    ///   - repo: HuggingFace repository to download from.
+    ///   - directory: Optional override for the cache directory.
+    ///   - computeUnits: CoreML compute units for model compilation. Defaults to `.all`.
+    ///     Use `.cpuAndGPU` on iOS 26+ to work around ANE compiler regressions.
+    ///   - progressHandler: Optional download progress callback.
     public static func download(
         variants requestedVariants: Set<ModelNames.TTS.Variant>? = nil,
         from repo: String = TtsConstants.defaultRepository,
         directory: URL? = nil,
+        computeUnits: MLComputeUnits = .all,
         progressHandler: DownloadUtils.ProgressHandler? = nil
     ) async throws -> TtsModels {
         let targetDir = try directory ?? getCacheDirectory()
@@ -46,8 +56,7 @@ public struct TtsModels: Sendable {
             .kokoro,
             modelNames: modelNames,
             directory: modelsDirectory,
-            // v2 models converted with fp16 precision schedule BERT + generator ops to ANE (1.67x speedup)
-            computeUnits: .all,
+            computeUnits: computeUnits,
             variant: variantFilter,
             progressHandler: progressHandler
         )