Ollama Adds Offline TTS to Mac App with MLX Speed Boost

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Ollama has officially added text-to-speech (TTS) support to its Mac app, featuring the Gradium Phonon model. Leveraging Apple's MLX framework for local execution on Apple Silicon, it achieves up to 35% faster generation than previous implementations while supporting real-time streaming and multi-language accents.

LATEST/Ollama has officially added text-to-speech (TTS) support to its Mac app, featuring the Gradium Phonon model. Leveraging Apple's MLX framework for local execution on Apple Silicon, it achieves up to 35% faster generation than previous implementations while supporting real-time streaming and multi-language accents.

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IT之家 · 智能时代T2Oct 27, 09:00·68 pts
Ollama Adds Offline TTS to Mac App with MLX Speed Boost
- Ollama Mac app integrates TTS for the first time, enabling fully offline operation for data privacy
- Utilizes Apple's MLX framework to achieve 35% faster speech generation compared to original implementations on M5 Max chips
- Supports Gradium Phonon models across five languages with various accents, including real-time streaming output
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