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Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-VoiceDesign

Audio Qwen Text→speech 1 build Open weights 285k dl/mo

Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-VoiceDesign is an open-weight audio or speech model from Qwen. Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign (BF16) weighs 3.8 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-VoiceDesign is a text-to-speech model developed by Qwen that supports voice cloning, voice design, and natural language-based voice control.
  • The model has 1.9B parameters and covers 10 major languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
  • It is released under the apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byQwen
Released2026-01-21
Parameters1.9B
VRAM3.8 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign (BF16)

3.8 GBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What Qwen says about Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-VoiceDesign

Read the model card

&nbsp&nbsp🤗 Hugging Face&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp🤖 ModelScope&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp📑 Blog&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp📑 Paper&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp💻 GitHub

We release Qwen3-TTS, a series of powerful speech generation models developed by Qwen, offering comprehensive support for voice cloning, voice design, ultra-high-quality human-like speech generation, and natural language-based voice control.

Overview

Qwen3-TTS covers 10 major languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) as well as multiple dialectal voice profiles. Key features:

  • Powerful Speech Representation: Powered by the self-developed Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz, it achieves efficient acoustic compression and high-dimensional semantic modeling.
  • Universal End-to-End Architecture: Utilizing a discrete multi-codebook LM architecture to bypass traditional information bottlenecks.
  • Extreme Low-Latency Streaming Generation: Supports streaming generation with end-to-end synthesis latency as low as 97ms.
  • Intelligent Voice Control: Supports speech generation driven by natural language instructions for flexible control over timbre, emotion, and prosody.

Quickstart

Environment Setup

Install the qwen-tts Python package from PyPI:

pip install -U qwen-tts

Python Package Usage

import torch
import soundfile as sf
from qwen_tts import Qwen3TTSModel

# Load the model
model = Qwen3TTSModel.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice",
    device_map="cuda:0",
    dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
)

# Custom Voice Generation
wavs, sr = model.generate_custom_voice(
    text="其实我真的有发现,我是一个特别善于观察别人情绪的人。",
    language="Chinese",
    speaker="Vivian",
    instruct="用特别愤怒的语气说",
)
sf.write("output.wav", wavs[0], sr)

Evaluation

Zero-shot speech generation on the Seed-TTS test set (Word Error Rate (WER, ↓)):

Modeltest-zhtest-en
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base0.771.24

Citation

If you find our paper and code useful in your research, please consider giving a star ⭐ and citation 📝:

@article{Qwen3-TTS,
  title={Qwen3-TTS Technical Report},
  author={Hangrui Hu and Xinfa Zhu and Ting He and Dake Guo and Bin Zhang and Xiong Wang and Zhifang Guo and Ziyue Jiang and Hongkun Hao and Zishan Guo and Xinyu Zhang and Pei Zhang and Baosong Yang and Jin Xu and Jingren Zhou and Junyang Lin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15621},
  year={2026}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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