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Artificial Analysis's evaluation shows that Phonic's Phonic 1 (High) ranks first among 22 models on the Speech to Speech Index with a score of 87.1, narrowly ahead of xAI's Grok Voice 3.0 (86.9 points). In the same evaluation, Phonic 1 ranks first on the Tau Voice agent tasks with 79.9%, leading the second place by 5.4 percentage points; on Big Bench Audio it ranks third with 98.9%, with a first-audio latency of 0.61 seconds. Phonic 1 is available through the Phonic API, with input audio costing $0.07 per minute and $4.20 per hour. Another report states that Phonic is a 10-person startup, which claims that Phonic-1 can execute queries and bookings before the caller has finished speaking; the report also mentions that Phonic claims a score of 90.2 on the Cekura call test set, while the public Cekura leaderboard lists Phonic v1 at 68.3%.
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10-person team Phonic releases speech model Phonic-1, claims it can query and book in parallel during calls
The 10-person startup Phonic has released a speech model, Phonic-1, which it says can execute queries and bookings before the caller has finished speaking. The model tops the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard with a score of 87.1, 0.2 points higher than xAI's Grok Voice 3.0, with a customer service task completion rate of 79.9% and a first-audio latency of 0.61 seconds. Phonic says it scored 90.2 on the Cekura call test set, but the public Cekura leaderboard lists Phonic v1 at 68.3%; the company has completed a $27.5 million Series A round led by First Round, bringing total funding to $31.5 million.
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Phonic 1 Tops the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index, Leading Grok with 87.1 Points…
Artificial Analysis evaluations show that Phonic's Phonic 1 (High) ranks first among 22 models on the Speech to Speech Index with 87.1 points, leading Grok Voice 3.0's 86.9 points by a narrow margin. The model ranks first on the Tau Voice agent task with 79.9%, leading the second place by 5.4 percentage points; it ranks third on Big Bench Audio with 98.9%, and its Time to First Audio is 0.61 seconds. Phonic 1 is available through the Phonic API, with input audio costing $0.07 per minute and $4.20 per hour.
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