# Phonic 1 (High) has the fastest time to first audio among top speech models

> Original title: Phonic 1 (High)'s average Time to First Audio on the Big Bench Audio benchmark is 0.61 seconds, ~25% faster than Grok Voice 3.0 (0.81s), ...

- Source: Artificial Analysis
- Published: 2026-10-29T16:00:20.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/j8oahg82bf83d29b1e164b90j
- Original: https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2115836137134850399

## Summary

Artificial Analysis says Phonic 1 (High) averages 0.61 seconds to first audio on the Big Bench Audio benchmark. That is about 25% faster than Grok Voice 3.0 at 0.81 seconds, and less than half the time of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) at 1.34 seconds and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) at 1.35 seconds. It is the fastest of the top five models in its Speech to Speech Index.

## Post

Phonic 1 (High)'s average Time to First Audio on the Big Bench Audio benchmark is 0.61 seconds, ~25% faster than Grok Voice 3.0 (0.81s), the next model in our Speech to Speech Index, and less than half the time of GPT-Live-1 (Astra, medium) (1.34s) and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) (1.35s). That makes it the fastest of the top 5 models in our Speech to Speech Index, with Phonic 1 (High), Grok Voice 3.0 and Grok Voice 2.0 the only models in the top 5 under 1 second.

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