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A Closer Look at Phonon, on-device TTS that tops the benchmarks
Gradium · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Gradium released Phonon, a small on-device text-to-speech model that runs locally without servers, topping Hugging Face's Open TTS Leaderboard in speed and intelligibility.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building voice features on phones, embedded devices, or browsers who need privacy, offline capability, or low latency should evaluate Phonon's 65-75 MB models.
- Watch out
- Phonon 31m is Apache 2.0 licensed, but larger models use non-commercial CC BY-NC; commercial use of those requires per-user pricing. Training stability required special techniques.
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- benchmark
Who else ran this
- A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.Hugging Face
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