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Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio
81% accuracy at 216ms: Gradium AI's new TTS model breaks the speed-quality tradeoff across five languages.
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Why it matters
A practical capability benchmark in speech synthesis—measurable hard-case performance and latency at scale—signals meaningful progress in an underrated frontier: real-time, multilingual voice generation for products and agents.
The key facts
9 to know81.0% human-rated pass rate on 500 hard-case sentences
216 ms P50 time-to-first-audio latency
Five languages supported
Evaluation set open on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0
Benchmark framed as speed-accuracy tradeoff solved
81.0% human-rated pass rate on 500 hard sentences
216 ms P50 time-to-first-audio on Coval hardware
Coverage across five languages
Model released as default/production-ready
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Publisher excerpt: 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 under CC BY 4.0.