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Qwen3-TTS-12Hz

Audio Qwen Text→speech 1 build Open weights 532k dl/mo

Qwen3-TTS-12Hz is an open-weight audio or speech model from Qwen. Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base (BF16) weighs 1.8 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Qwen3-TTS-12Hz is a text-to-speech model developed by Qwen that supports voice cloning and streaming generation.
  • It has 915M parameters and is licensed under apache-2.0.
  • The model covers ten languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

Summary of the Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byQwen
Released2026-01-21
Parameters915M
VRAM1.8 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base (BF16)

1.8 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

Read the model card

Qwen3-TTS Technical Report | GitHub Repository | Hugging Face Demo

Qwen3-TTS is a family of advanced multilingual, controllable, robust, and streaming text-to-speech models. Trained on over 5 million hours of speech data spanning 10 languages, Qwen3-TTS supports state-of-the-art 3-second voice cloning and description-based control.

This specific checkpoint is the 0.6B Base model, which is capable of rapid voice cloning from a user-provided audio input.

Quickstart

Installation

pip install -U qwen-tts
# Optional: for optimized performance
pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation

Sample Usage (Voice Clone)

To clone a voice and synthesize new content using the Base model, you can use the following code snippet:

import torch
import soundfile as sf
from qwen_tts import Qwen3TTSModel

# Load the model
model = Qwen3TTSModel.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base",
    device_map="cuda:0",
    dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
)

# Reference audio for cloning
ref_audio = "https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-TTS-Repo/clone.wav"
ref_text  = "Okay. Yeah. I resent you. I love you. I respect you. But you know what? You blew it! And thanks to you."

# Generate speech
wavs, sr = model.generate_voice_clone(
    text="I am solving the equation: x = [-b ± √(b²-4ac)] / 2a? Nobody can — it's a disaster (◍•͈⌔•͈◍), very sad!",
    language="English",
    ref_audio=ref_audio,
    ref_text=ref_text,
)

# Save the resulting audio
sf.write("output_voice_clone.wav", wavs[0], sr)

Overview

Introduction

Qwen3-TTS covers 10 major languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) as well as multiple dialectal voice profiles to meet global application needs. 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, it realizes full-information end-to-end speech modeling.
  • Extreme Low-Latency Streaming Generation: End-to-end synthesis latency as low as 97ms, meeting the rigorous demands of real-time interactive scenarios.
  • Intelligent Text Understanding and Voice Control: Supports speech generation driven by natural language instructions, allowing for flexible control over multi-dimensional acoustic attributes.

Model Architecture

Citation

If you find this work useful, please consider citing the technical report:

@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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