Gradium Extends Funding to $100 Million and Expands to Silicon Valley

Gradium extends its seed funding to $100 million, welcoming new investors including NVIDIA, and opens a San Francisco Bay Area office to scale its real-time voice AI.

Smaller, clearer, better: Phonon Multilingual beats Magpie and NeuTTS Nano in French, German, and Spanish

Phonon, our 100M-parameter on-device Text-To-Speech model, produces up to 3.5x fewer word errors than NVIDIA's Magpie TTS in French, German, and Spanish at 3.6x fewer parameters, and leads NeuTTS Nano on both word error rate and speaker similarity. It clones a reference voice across five languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.