Alibaba launches Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS with 16 languages and 3-minute one-pass audio
Alibaba_Qwen · x · 2026-07-23
Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a new text-to-speech model with two variants: Flash for real-time interaction and Plus for higher-quality generation.
Key upgrades include:
- Fine-grained inline control tags such as [whisper], [angry], [breaths], and [laughs]
- Natural-language steering like “read this slowly, like a bedtime story”
- Support for 16 languages
- Better output from noisy reference audio
- One-pass long-form generation up to 3 minutes
Alibaba says the model is now #1 on the Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard. The post links to the blog and API.
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