Phonic 1 Hits 0.61s Time-to-First-Audio, Fastest of the Top 5 Speech Models
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-30
Artificial Analysis latency data: Phonic 1 (High) averages 0.61s time to first audio on Big Bench Audio — 25% faster than Grok Voice 3.0 (0.81s), the next model in the Speech to Speech Index, and less than half of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) (1.34s) and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) (1.35s). It's the fastest of the top 5; only Phonic 1, Grok Voice 3.0 and Grok Voice 2.0 finish under one second.
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