LLMs & Models4 min read
Open-weight speech for production voice agents
Magpie TTS spends 32ms of your voice agent's latency budget
Magpie TTS reports 32ms time-to-first-audio on an NVIDIA B200 and adds Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese, bringing its roster to 12 languages. The open-weights pitch: self-hosted speech synthesis no longer loses the latency argument.
2026-08-16