Qwen3-TTS Technical Report research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2026

Alibaba (Qwen) · Foundation models · Jan 22, 2026 · 194 citations · 80 upvotes · unverified

The Qwen3-TTS series presents advanced multilingual text-to-speech models with voice cloning and controllable speech generation capabilities, utilizing dual-track LM architecture and specialized speech tokenizers for efficient streaming synthesis.

By Hangrui Hu, Xinfa Zhu, Ting He and 13 more · arXiv 2601.15621 · PDF · Code

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Venue: arXiv.org
Citations: 194, 34 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes: 80 · Hugging Face
Lab: Alibaba (Qwen) · on Companies · on Quarterly

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