Phonon

Phonon

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About

MiniMax Speech 2.8 is a next-generation AI speech model built to make synthetic voice feel alive, expressive, and deeply human. It focuses on performance in real-world voice agent scenarios, combining ultra-fast response, richer emotional expression, cleaner audio, and stronger cross-lingual performance for products that need natural spoken interaction. Speech 2.8 is designed to reduce the distance between AI voice and real human communication, giving developers and creators more control over how a voice sounds, reacts, and carries meaning. It supports flexible emotion control, allowing users to shape delivery with moods, tone, and expressive direction instead of relying on flat or robotic speech. It can produce speech with more natural pauses, cadence, emphasis, and emotional texture, helping AI characters, assistants, narrators, and interactive agents sound more believable across longer conversations.

About

Phonon is an open-weight text-to-speech (TTS) model and inference runtime for developers adding speech generation to applications that need local, offline audio. It converts text into spoken audio and can stream speech as it is generated. The runtime provides Rust and Python interfaces, a Swift package for iOS and macOS, JavaScript for browsers, and Android libraries; it can also run as a self-hosted server with an OpenAI-compatible API. Depending on the model variant, it supports English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Phonon is intended for developers integrating speech into mobile, desktop, web, embedded, and server applications, including offline or privacy-sensitive use cases. The 31-million-parameter English model weights use the Apache 2.0 license; 40-million-parameter language-specific and multilingual weights use CC BY-NC 4.0. The runtime code is separately available under Apache 2.0 or MIT.

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Platforms Supported

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iPhone Supported
iPad Supported
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Audience

Creators and developers that need to generate natural-sounding synthetic speech and clone voices with realistic emotion, pacing, and clarity

Audience

Developers and product teams building mobile, desktop, web, embedded, or server applications that need text-to-speech, including offline or privacy-sensitive use cases.

Support

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Support

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API

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API

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Training

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Training

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Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
Singapore
www.minimax.io/news/minimax-speech-28

Company Information

Gradium
Founded: 2025
France, United States
gradium.ai/phonon

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Categories

AI Models Supported
AI Voice Models Supported

Categories

Integrations

Hugging Face Not Supported
MiniMax Supported

Integrations

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