Gradium-TTS tops Voice Arena latency board at 68ms median time to first audio
mattturck · x · 2026-10-07
Gradium-TTS still leads the Voice Arena US English latency board two weeks after launch, with a 68ms median time to first audio—over 3x faster than its own previous 236ms model, and well ahead of Speechify's Simba 3.2 (123ms) and Inworld TTS 2 (168.5ms). It ranks #10 of 21 at 1007 Elo on blind native-speaker quality votes, placing it on the quality-speed frontier alongside Simba 3.2, Inworld TTS 2, and Cartesia's Sonic-3.6.
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