Phonon on-device TTS hits 80K downloads with PyTorch-free Rust runtime
mattturck · x · 2026-10-28
Gradium's Phonon brings natural text-to-speech to phones, laptops, browsers, and local services, with 80K+ downloads and 340 GitHub stars.
- Rust runtime with no PyTorch dependency, targeting offline assistants and accessibility tools
- Multi-platform builds: iOS, Android, WASM, CoreML, QNN; dual Apache-2.0/MIT licensed
- One-liner usage: uvx ptts --lang en "Hello from Phonon."
The founders answered community questions on inference and integrations.
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