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Ollama's new Phonon integration brings natural-sounding AI voices to your Mac, letting you generate speech locally without relying on cloud services or a subscription.

Rachit Agarwal / Digital Trends

Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper . However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.

Ollama , an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS , Windows , and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.

How is Ollama changing that?

Ollama now supports text-to-speech models on the Mac, starting with Phonon. Built by Gradium, Phonon is a family of small models that can turn any text into speech right on your Mac.…