• Agora entered a strategic partnership with Gradium to integrate Gradium’s ultra-low-latency text-to-speech into Agora Conversational AI Engine.
• Integration expected later this month, enabling developers to switch on Gradium TTS via a single configuration inside the platform.
• Gradium cited median time-to-first-audio of about 155 milliseconds under concurrent load, targeting more responsive voice AI agents.
• Partnership adds voice cloning, multilingual support, deployment options spanning cloud to on-premises within the same API surface.
• Agora’s network of more than 200 points of presence provides global distribution for the integrated TTS capability.

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