Ollama 0.40.9 adds speech and decision-model serving
Ollama 0.40.9 can generate streaming speech with Phonon on Apple Silicon through the CLI or OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint, adds d3 decision models from 2B to 27B, and brings the Flint coding model to Linux and Windows. It also reports streaming failures instead of silently ending partial output.
Why it matters: One local runtime now exposes audio generation and bounded decision outputs alongside chat and coding models. That simplifies integration but makes calibration, voice disclosure and partial-output failure handling part of the same operator surface.