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Phonon is now open-source, 31M and 40M TTS models designed to run on the edge

At Gradium we just made our first open-source model release with Phonon, a collection of small Text-to-Speech models designed to run on device. The inference stack is fully open-source and targets 10+ different backends (CPUs, GPUs, NPUs), most of them in Rust. We hope that the community will build…

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  1. 2026-10-20 16:01 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Phonon is now open-source, 31M and 40M TTS models designed to run on the edge

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