Gradium reported on November 5, 2026 that its Phonon on-device text-to-speech models had been downloaded more than 200,000 times in their first two weeks, in a technical follow-up published on Hugging Face. Gradium said Phonon ranked first for intelligibility in German and Spanish on the Open TTS Leaderboard and in the top three in every language it evaluated, alongside models up to 100 times its size. Gradium’s chart of 95th-percentile CPU time to first audio placed Phonon 31m English first at…