# Gradium — Gradium: Solving voice

- Company: Gradium (gradium.ai)
- Announced: 2025-12-02
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- Group: announcements
- Source: https://gradium.ai/blog/gradium
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18333-gradium-solving-voice
- Subject: Gradium TTS / Phonon

Today we’re excited to launch Gradium, the core engine powering the next generation of voice products and interactions. Drawing on more than a decade of frontier research, our mission is simple and ambitious: to provide the AI foundation that makes natural, real-time voice the default interface between people and machines. To achieve our ambition, we raised 70M$ in a seed round led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo with participation from DST Global Partners, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé, Korelya Capital, Amplify Partners, Liquid2, Drysdale Ventures and angels including Yann LeCun, Olivier Pomel, Ilkka Paananen, Thomas Wolf, Guillermo Rauch and Mehdi Ghissassi. An engine for natural voice agents Voice is our most natural interface, yet its full potential with machines remains unrealized. Today’s voice AI is brittle, slow and expensive. Achieving human-like effortless interaction is not just difficult, it is a technological frontier. Solving it requires unmatched expertise and precision at every level to create voices that are fully organic, natural and convincingly human. …

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