Qwen's two voice tracks: rent Qwen-Audio-3.1 in the cloud or self-host Qwen3-TTS/ASR
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-10
Qwen now has two voice tracks. You can rent Qwen-Audio-3.1 in the cloud, or run Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR yourself under the Apache-2.0 license.
The author breaks down what each model does, what has been verified so far, and how to build a fully local voice loop (ASR → processing → TTS) — practical guidance for developers building on-device voice apps.
Related event: Qwen's Dual Voice Track: Cloud Audio-3.1 or Self-Hosted TTS/ASR(3 posts)→
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