The English Phonon 31m model (31 M parameters, 64.5 MB) runs in ~7 ms on a laptop CPU and is now Apache 2.0‑licensed.
NoteBy OossaPublished by Oossa: 1 min read
Gradium has open‑sourced its Phonon family of text‑to‑speech models. The English Phonon 31m model contains 31 million parameters, fits in a 64.5 MB file, and can start speaking in about 7 ms on a typical laptop CPU. The code and model weights are released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing anyone to use or modify them.
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