Listen to the benchmark phrases

Each clip is the first warm run on the MacBook Pro (M3 Max) in Chrome. The three Phonon runtimes use the same model and voice. They sample with different random numbers, so each clip is a different take of the same text. Kokoro is a different model, for reference.

Text	blixt/phonon Phonon 31M, voice Delia, WebGPU	phonon-tts WebGPU Phonon 31M, voice Delia	phonon-tts CPU Phonon 31M, voice Delia	Kokoro 82M kokoro-js, voice af_heart
The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks.
Glue the sheet to the dark blue background.
It's easy to tell the depth of a well.
These days a chicken leg is a rare dish.
Rice is often served in round bowls.
The juice of lemons makes fine punch.
The box was thrown beside the parked truck.
The hogs were fed chopped corn and garbage.
Four hours of steady work faced us.
A large size in stockings is hard to sell.
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.