Gradium open-sources Phonon TTS models under 50M params with day-0 Transformers support
pcuenq · x · 2026-10-21
French speech startup Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a suite of on-device TTS models all under 50M parameters, claiming a new standard for naturalness and accuracy across languages with broad inference support. Phonon-31m ships under Apache 2.0 and has day-0 support in Hugging Face Transformers, making it immediately usable for on-device speech applications.
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