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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.
Summary of the Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | Qwen |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-01-21 |
| Parameters | 1.9B |
| VRAM | 3.8 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One stream | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
  🤗 Hugging Face   |   🤖 ModelScope   |   📑 Blog   |   📑 Paper   |   💻 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.
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:
Install the qwen-tts Python package from PyPI:
pip install -U qwen-tts
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)
Zero-shot speech generation on the Seed-TTS test set (Word Error Rate (WER, ↓)):
| Model | test-zh | test-en |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base | 0.77 | 1.24 |
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.