Ollama Mac app supports the local text-to-speech model Phonon

Oct 27

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   Mac version of Ollama adds offline text-to-speech, up to 35% faster than the original solution

   Ollama announced on October 24 that its Mac app officially supports text-to-speech generation, with Windows and Linux versions to follow. The first supported speech model is the Phonon series developed by Gradium, which users can run offline on Apple Silicon Macs without cloud services. Official tests show that on a MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip, Phonon, while achieving a word error rate comparable to the Hugging Face Transformers reference implementation, generates speech 35% faster than Gradium's own implementation.

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   Ollama Mac Version Supports Local Text-to-Speech Model Phonon

   Ollama announced that its Mac app now supports text-to-speech generation. The first integrated model is the Phonon series developed by Gradium, with Windows and Linux support coming soon. Speech can be generated in real time, so users can listen while the model outputs its reply. Ollama says that with Apple's MLX framework, speech generation was tested on an M5 Max MacBook Pro at a speed 35% faster than Gradium's own implementation, with word error rate on par with the reference implementation in Hugging Face Transformers. Phonon supports five languages: English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Each language has a separate model, plus a multilingual model, and it offers multiple voices with different accents, including American and British English.

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