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

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.

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

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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.

Speed and accuracy usually pull against each other in text-to-speech.

The evaluation set is open on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0.

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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. Speed and accuracy usually pull against each other in text-to-speech. The evaluation set is open on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0.

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Speed and accuracy usually pull against each other in text-to-speech. The evaluation set is open on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0.

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