Gradium open-sources Phonon, 31M and 40M edge TTS models
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Phonon is a collection of small text-to-speech models built to run on-device, released as Gradium's first open-source model drop. The inference stack is fully open-source and targets 10+ backends — CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs — most written in Rust.
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