Open-source TTS model Phonon hits ~85k downloads in a week, Rust inference stack
mattturck · x · 2026-10-29
Phonon, the open-source TTS model from Gradium AI, has been downloaded roughly 85,000 times in its first week. The team answered community questions in a live session and highlighted their Rust-based inference codebase, designed to squeeze the most out of local CPU/GPU/NPU hardware for on-device deployment.
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