Local Phonon voice model on Stackchan robot beats ElevenLabs API on latency
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-24
Developer alexcovoeth ran Gradium's local voice model Phonon-31m on an M5Stack Stackchan desktop robot, reporting that local voice latency beat calling ElevenLabs via API — and it's free. Cute desktop robots are getting fast, fully local voices.
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