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About Meet the team behind Gradium: /about/who-we-are
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Agent Demo Test our voice agent live: /demo
Agent Demo: /demo
App Gallery Apps built on Gradium: /gallery
App Gallery: /gallery
Apply for the Startup Program: /startups/apply
Blog: /blog
Careers Come build with us: /about/careers
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Docs Start building in minutes: https://docs.gradium.ai/guides/introduction
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Gradbot Build voice agents in a single prompt: /gradbot
Gradbot: /gradbot
Latest post New voices: how we pick the one that wins Picking a voice works like casting: one candidate in a thousand has a hit factor you cannot explain. Here is the methodology behind every flagship voice in the Gradium catalog, from generating hundreds of candidates per category to ranking them head-to-head against the incumbents on an ELO benchmark, why the same prompt does not travel across locales, and how to write the target yourself. August 4, 2026 9 min read: /blog/new-voices-how-we-pick-the-one-that-wins
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gradium-ai/
Live Translation Convert voice to voice in real time: /translate
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On-Device TTS Offline real-time natural voice: /on-device-tts
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Press Media and news resources: /press
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Spotlight post Gradium Extends Funding to $100 Million and Expands to Silicon Valley Gradium extends its seed funding to $100 million, welcoming new investors including NVIDIA, and opens a San Francisco Bay Area office to scale its real-time voice AI. July 8, 2026 3 min read: /blog/gradium-100-million-funding-nvidia
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Startup Program: Free Voice AI Credits for Startups | Gradium
Public Beta ・ Our New Gradium Text-to-Speech Model Is Live
Public Beta ・ Our New Gradium Text-to-Speech Model Is Live
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Spotlight post
Gradium Extends Funding to $100 Million and Expands to Silicon Valley
Gradium extends its seed funding to $100 million, welcoming new investors including NVIDIA, and opens a San Francisco Bay Area office to scale its real-time voice AI.
July 8, 2026
3 min read
Models
Text-to-Speech
Turn text into natural sounding voice
Speech-to-Text
Transcribe audio into text instantly
Live Translation
Convert voice to voice in real time
Voice Cloning
Instance or pro voice clone
On-Device TTS
Offline real-time natural voice
Showcase
Agent Demo
Test our voice agent live
Gradbot
Build voice agents in a single prompt
App Gallery
Apps built on Gradium
Latest post
New voices: how we pick the one that wins
Picking a voice works like casting: one candidate in a thousand has a hit factor you cannot explain. Here is the methodology behind every flagship voice in the Gradium catalog, from generating hundreds of candidates per category to ranking them head-to-head against the incumbents on an ELO benchmark, why the same prompt does not travel across locales, and how to write the target yourself.
August 4, 2026
9 min read
Build
Docs
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Status
Monitor system performance
Trust
Security and compliance
Company
About
Meet the team behind Gradium
Careers
Come build with us
Press
Media and news resources
Products
Pricing
Blog
Resources
Talk to us
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Spotlight post
Gradium Extends Funding to $100 Million and Expands to Silicon Valley
Gradium extends its seed funding to $100 million, welcoming new investors including NVIDIA, and opens a San Francisco Bay Area office to scale its real-time voice AI.
July 8, 2026
3 min read
Models
Text-to-Speech
Turn text into natural sounding voice
Speech-to-Text
Transcribe audio into text instantly
Live Translation
Convert voice to voice in real time
Voice Cloning
Instance or pro voice clone
On-Device TTS
Offline real-time natural voice
Showcase
Agent Demo
Test our voice agent live
Gradbot
Build voice agents in a single prompt
App Gallery
Apps built on Gradium
Latest post
New voices: how we pick the one that wins
Picking a voice works like casting: one candidate in a thousand has a hit factor you cannot explain. Here is the methodology behind every flagship voice in the Gradium catalog, from generating hundreds of candidates per category to ranking them head-to-head against the incumbents on an ELO benchmark, why the same prompt does not travel across locales, and how to write the target yourself.
August 4, 2026
9 min read
Build
Docs
Start building in minutes
Status
Monitor system performance
Trust
Security and compliance
Company
About
Meet the team behind Gradium
Careers
Come build with us
Press
Media and news resources
Gradium for Startups
From stealth to scale, Gradium empowers founders to build category-defining voice experiences.
Get
$2,000+
in free credits,
6 months
of full API access, direct
Engineering Support
, and
Early Access to Our Newest Models and Research Previews
.
Apply for the Startup Program
What You Get
Grant recipients receive 6 months of our M plan completely free. That's 54 million credits worth over $2,000, equivalent to 1,200 hours of TTS or 4,998 hours of STT. You'll have full access to Gradium's suite of voice AI models, including our ultra-low latency Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, and Voice Cloning.
Accepted founders do not just get an API key; they get a seat at the table. You will have direct access to Gradium Engineering Support to help you integrate our audio-native models into your stack and optimize your voice layer for a seamless user experience.
You'll moreover get access to previews of the next generation of models, freshly baked by our applied research team. We love seeing how different teams implement our tech and are here to help you push the boundaries of what is possible.
More About The Gradium Startup Program
At Gradium, we're building real-time voice models (STT, TTS) with industry-leading voice cloning, semantic turn-taking, and accuracy that handles the hard cases. Every day we see new applications emerge: voice AI for gaming, customer care, media, and markets we haven't imagined yet. The builders driving this wave shouldn't be held back by cost or infrastructure. That's why we're launching the Gradium Startup Program to back them from day one.
Bridging the Scaling Gap
We have heard from many of you that the current landscape of voice API pricing makes it difficult to scale. When voice is a core component of your product, not just a feature, high per-minute costs can kill your unit economics before you even get off the ground. We know how hard it is to balance high-quality infrastructure with the realities of being early-stage. That is why we are launching the Gradium Startup Program: to ensure that the cost of great voice technology isn't a barrier to your growth.
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