Text-to-speech

Qwen3-TTS 1.7B Base requirements, license & speed

By Alibaba Qwen · released 2026-01-21 · 1.93B parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingYes

Key facts

License
apache-2.0 source
Commercial use
Yes source
Apache-2.0
Parameters
1.93B source
safetensors parameter count
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Unknown
Streaming
Yes source
Vendor claims end-to-end latency as low as 97 ms
Voice cloning
Yes source
Languages
zh, en, ja, ko, de, fr, ru, pt, es, it source
Released
2026-01-21 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Qwen3-TTS 1.7B Base yet. Planned targets: Raspberry Pi 5, CPU-only x86, Apple Silicon Mac and consumer GPUs. Get notified.

Accuracy

We don't run accuracy evals. For quality and intelligibility, check the Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard.

Comparisons: Kokoro vs Qwen3-TTS

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