A Closer Look at Phonon TTS. Launching High-Quality On-Device Speech That Tops the Benchmarks.
AI-generated summary Hugging Face launched the Phonon text-to-speech model, which runs locally on user devices without needing a network connection. Hugging Face says the model was downloaded over 200,000 times in its first two weeks and ranks at the top of the Open TTS Leaderboard CPU streaming benchmark for time-to-first audio.