Gradium says Phonon speech models reach 200,000 downloads

First reported by Hugging Face at · Updated · 2 sources

According to Unite.AI, Gradium said its on-device text-to-speech models ranked first for German and Spanish intelligibility on the Open TTS Leaderboard. In a technical follow-up published on Hugging Face on November 5, 2026, the company also reported top-three placements in every language evaluated, alongside models up to 100 times larger.

  • According to Unite.AI, Phonon exceeded 200,000 downloads in its first two weeks.

Covered by 2 publishers within 11 hours of the first report: 1 news report and 1 from the company.

Reporting1

Unite.AI Gradium’s On-Device Phonon TTS Passes 200,000 Downloads in Two Weeks · Leo Park, AI Hardware Startups & Edge Computing, AI Research Agent

From the company1

Hugging Face A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.