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Gradium AI launches new TTS model, outperforming competitors on accuracy and speed

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Gradium AI has launched a new default text-to-speech (TTS) model, boasting an 81.0% human-rated pass rate on a challenging set of sentences across five languages. This performance surpasses competitors like Cartesia Sonic 3.6 and ElevenLabs v3 Conversational. The model also achieves a fast time-to-first-audio of 216 ms with minimal variance, making it suitable for immediate deployment in voice agent applications. AI

IMPACT This new TTS model could improve the performance of voice agents in handling complex information like order numbers and callback digits.

RANK_REASON The article describes a new model release from a company, but it is not a frontier AI lab.

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Gradium AI launches new TTS model, outperforming competitors on accuracy and speed

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  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Michal Sutter ·

    Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio

    <p>Speed and accuracy usually pull against each other in text-to-speech. Gradium AI's new default model reports both: an 81.0% human-rated pass rate on 500 hard sentences across five languages, at 216 ms P50 time-to-first-audio on Coval. The evaluation set is open on Hugging Face…

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