Gradium's tiny open-source Phonon TTS beats models 100x larger

Gradium AI open-sourced Phonon, an on-device TTS suite under 50M parameters that tops the Open TTS Leaderboard in multiple languages, beating rivals up to 100x larger, with Hugging Face collaborating on the release.

2026-11-05 ~ 2026-11-05 · 3 related posts

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