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Phonon

Gradium's tiny text-to-speech models (October 2026) that run in a browser tab, on a phone or a laptop CPU, reading English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese with about 100 voices as they generate. Free to download, but the licence bans commercial use.

Go to Phonon’s website
Free to try?Yes
Can I sell what I make?No
Open or closedDownloadable, with conditions
Skill neededTechnical

The facts, with sources

Open or closed
Downloadable, with conditions
You can download and run it, but the licence limits use
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0 (Non-commercial only)
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Can I sell what I make?
No
Card: CC BY-NC 4.0 'does not allow commercial use'. Gradium's own studio offers cloning and voice design (terms not read).
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Cost
Free option: Free to download; you pay for your own hardware
Plans below.
How you use it
On your own computer
Gated download; runtimes for Python, browser, Core ML, Android, Rust, C/C++.
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Skill needed
Technical
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Made by
Gradium
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
Status
Available
Date the weights appeared on Hugging Face.
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial

What you can make with it

text to audio

source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page

Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page

Related

Where you can run it

Hugging Face

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About this entry. Facts last checked 7 Nov 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.

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