Nari Labs open-sources Qwen3-TTS 1.7B: 50ms latency, 10x cheaper than ElevenLabs
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-09-12
- Nari Labs launched what it calls the world's fastest and cheapest speech generation engine, built on the open-source Qwen3-TTS 1.7B model.
- Time-to-first-audio (TTFA) is just 50ms — 5x faster than Cartesia.
- Cost is $5 per million characters, roughly 10x cheaper than ElevenLabs.
- It reportedly beats the market average in quality and expressiveness on Speko AI benchmarks; a free trial is available now.
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