Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash)
Speech and audio
qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-streaming
Price not published
Qwen3-TTS (open weights 0.6B / 1.7B; API qwen3-tts-flash)
Apache-2.0 multilingual TTS you can run locally; hosted versions on Model Studio.
Model idQwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
PricePrice not published
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
71newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
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- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- After it from Alibaba
- Qwen3-ASR (0.6B / 1.7B) + Qwen3-ForcedAligner29 Jan 2026
- Weights
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (Apache-2.0).
How to call it
5 ways to use Qwen3-TTS (open weights 0.6B / 1.7B; API qwen3-tts-flash), with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice |
huggingface.co | |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign |
huggingface.co | |
| GitHub | github.com | ||
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | qwen3-tts-flash |
alibabacloud.com | |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (instruct / voice design / voice clone) | qwen3-tts-instruct-flash |
alibabacloud.com |
Pricing
Price not published.
No price source linked. Checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and audio
- Output
- Audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- Yes
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Released
- 22 January 2026
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Speech and audio
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Open-weights voice design and 3-second cloning
Voice design from natural-language descriptions and voice cloning from ~3 s of audio, in 10 languages (zh, en, ja, ko, de, fr, ru, pt, es, it).
97 ms streaming latency
12 Hz multi-codebook tokenizer; first audio packet after a single input character, end-to-end latency as low as 97 ms; one model for streaming and non-streaming.
Notes
HF repos: Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-{1.7B,0.6B}-{Base,CustomVoice}, 1.7B-VoiceDesign, Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz. API snapshots: qwen3-tts-flash (=2025-11-27), qwen3-tts-flash-2025-09-18, qwen3-tts-instruct-flash-2026-01-26, qwen3-tts-vd-2026-01-26 (voice design), qwen3-tts-vc-2026-01-22 (voice clone). Superseded in Alibaba’s hosted lineup by Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS (Jul 2026) and Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS (Sep 2026).
Sources: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS · https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15621 · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-tts
Not yet checked against an official source: API pricing not verified.