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Delivering real-time text-to-speech with Gradium
Baseten · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Gradium TTS, a streaming text-to-speech model, achieves time-to-first-audio faster than human speech response times using Delayed Streams Modeling and GPU optimizations.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building real-time voice agents who need sub-200ms latency and natural conversational flow without waiting for complete text generation.
- Watch out
- Performance depends on tuning the delay between text and audio streams; shorter delays reduce latency but may degrade voice quality. Cold start times still matter during traffic spikes.
- speech
- text-to-speech
The patterns behind this
- Realtime Voice Agents
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Generative UI (Agent-Rendered Interfaces)
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