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

- Company: Gradium (gradium.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-15
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- Group: announcements
- Source: https://gradium.ai/blog/phonon-multilingual-smaller-clearer-better
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18311-smaller-clearer-better-phonon-multilingual-beats-magpie-and-neutts-nano-in
- Subject: Gradium TTS / Phonon

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 it leads the other on-device voice-cloning models, NeuTTS Nano and the equally compact 100M-parameter Pocket TTS, on both word error rate and speaker similarity in every language we tested. Phonon clones a reference voice across all five languages it supports: English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Phonon is built on Continuous Audio Language Models [1] with flow-matching for waveform generation, first announced in April . Our previous benchmark posts established Phonon as the leader on English. A model that tops the English charts can still mangle French liaison, German compound nouns, or Spanish stress patterns, so this post extends the evaluation to the other four languages: French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, comparing Phonon against Pocket TTS, Magpie, and NeuTTS Nano wherever a baseline exists. Phonon at a glance How we evaluate multilingual Text-To-Speech quality …

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