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Gradium TTS: you no longer have to choose between latency and accuracy
Gradium · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Gradium released a new TTS model achieving 81% accuracy on hard cases like phone numbers and emails while maintaining 216ms latency, outperforming competitors.
- Why it matters
- Voice agent builders need this when production calls require both speed and correct pronunciation of structured data like confirmation codes and contact information.
- Watch out
- The evaluation uses a 500-sentence dataset from Gradium's user base; performance on different hard-case distributions or domains outside this set remains unknown.
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