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Free AI Voices Now Run Offline on a Mac. Only One of Ollama’s New Speech Models Is Licensed for Paid Work (inside)

Software box style graphic for Phonon Speech: requires an Apple Silicon Mac and Ollama 0.40.11 or later, uses 121 MB for the small English model and 141 MB for 40M models, outputs 24 kHz mono in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, Windows and Linux coming soon. A green sticker says the 31M English model is Apache 2.0 and allows commercial use; a red sticker says the 40M models are CC BY-NC 4.0, noncommercial only