Introducing Phonon ・ Our first open, on-device TTS model

From idea toprototypein minutes

Real-time speech models with 50 ms latency, an open-source framework for prototyping and orchestration partners for production. Pick your stack and go.

  • 47ms

    Time to first audio (P50)

  • 5.3%

    Word error rate

  • #1

    Leading silence on Coval benchmarks

Open-source framework

Prototype
with Gradbot

A small open-source framework for testing Gradium models in a live agent before you write any plumbing.

  • What is Gradbot

    Build a voice agent in a single prompt. Gradbot keeps STT, LLM and TTS in sync so you only focus on the logic. Works with any OpenAI-compatible LLM.

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  • Demos

    Runnable agents to start from instead of a blank file. Clone one, swap the prompt, and ship.

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  • Coding-agent skill

    A skill that teaches your coding agent Gradbot's patterns, so it scaffolds and extends voice agents correctly on the first try.

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  • Why we built it

    The problems we hit prototyping voice agents, and the design decisions behind Gradbot's core.

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Works with

LiveKit
CallShift
Agora
Rounded
Mimir
Acolad
Coval
Pipecat
Tallence
Free
Reecall
Calldesk
Sandra AI
Olimi AI
Wonderful
Kult
Continuata
RMC
ai-coustics
Yampa
AudioStack
Everything for builders

Run Gradium in production on the stack you already use.

Docs & ressources

Everything else
you need

When you’re ready for production scale, Gradium models run natively in the orchestration frameworks you already use.

  • Documentation

    Quickstarts, the Python SDK, streaming TTS, STT with semantic VAD, and the full REST and WebSocket reference.

    Read the docs
  • Migration guide

    Coming from ElevenLabs? The migration guide is the most-read page in our docs for a reason.

    Read the migration guide
  • Examples repo

    Voice agent demos beyond Gradbot: integrations, on-device experiments, and reference apps.

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  • Technical deep dives

    How we measure time to first audio, how semantic VAD works, and how we trade quality against latency.

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Community

Don’t
build alone

Gradbot is open source and shaped by the people using it.

Apps built
by the community

Little Voices

Ask the angel and the devil on your shoulder anything: a Pipecat app in Python on iPhone, with Phonon 31m giving both their voices, no network.

Harry Potter hat voice

Autonomous's robot, Lamp, puts on a sorting hat and talks in character, voiced by Phonon.

Phonon voice bot on Modal

A low-latency voice agent built with Pipecat on Modal. Phonon runs on the agent's CPU-only container, so first audio needs no network hop.

Readyto build ?

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