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

Gradium AI has released a new default text-to-speech model that achieves an 81.0% pass rate on complex linguistic evaluations. Operating with a 216 ms time-to-first-audio, the model aims to improve the trade-off between output speed and articulation accuracy.