# Ollama adds local speech generation on Apple Silicon Macs

_Published Monday, October 26, 2026 at 7:25 PM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Ollama has added its first speech-generation models to its Mac app, allowing users to turn text into audio locally. Gradium's Phonon models generate speech in real time, so users can listen while a response is being produced.

The models support English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, with separate language models and a multilingual option. They are available for Apple Silicon Macs running Ollama 0.40.11 or later.

Ollama says its implementation generated speech 35% faster than Gradium's implementation in tests on a MacBook Pro with M5 Max, while matching the reference implementation's word error rate. Windows and Linux speech support is still forthcoming.

## Sources

- [9to5Mac](https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/26/ollama-for-mac-gains-support-for-local-text-to-speech-models/)

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Published: 2026-10-26T23:25:34.676Z
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Retrieved: 2026-10-27T02:09:19.058Z
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