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Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

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Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#21

Kind of a noob, how would I implement this locally? How do I pass it audio to process. I'm assuming its in the API spec?

Scroll down on the Huggingface page, there are code examples and also a link to github: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-Base

Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#23

it isn't often that tehcnology gives me chills, but this did it. I've used "AI" TTS tools since 2018 or so, and i thought the stuff from two years ago was about the best we were going to get. I don't know the size of these, i scrolled to the samples. I am going to get the models set up somewhere and test them out. Now, maybe the results were cherrypicked. i know everyone else who has released one of these cherrypicks…

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Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#24

great news, this looks great! is it just me, or do most of the english audio samples sound like anime voices?

The real value I see is being able to clone a voice and change timbre and characteristics of the voice to be able to quickly generate voice overs, narrations, voice acting, etc. It's superb!

Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#26

Qwen team, please please please, release something to outperform and surpass the coding abilities of Opus 4.5. Although I like the model, I don't like the leadership of that company and how close it is, how divisive they're in terms of politics.

The Chinese labs distill the SOTA models to boost the performance of theirs. They are a trailer hooked up (with a 3-6 month long chain) to the trucks pushing the technology forwards. I've yet to see a trailer overtake it's truck. China would need an architectural breakthrough to leap American labs given the huge compute disparity.

No all they need is time. I am awaiting the dowfall of the ai hegemony and hype with popcorn at hand.

Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#27

it isn't often that tehcnology gives me chills, but this did it. I've used "AI" TTS tools since 2018 or so, and i thought the stuff from two years ago was about the best we were going to get. I don't know the size of these, i scrolled to the samples. I am going to get the models set up somewhere and test them out. Now, maybe the results were cherrypicked. i know everyone else who has released one of these cherrypicks…

I wonder if it was trained on anime dubs cause all of the examples I listened to sounded very similar to a miyazaki style dub.

Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#28
post #9

Qwen team, please please please, release something to outperform and surpass the coding abilities of Opus 4.5. Although I like the model, I don't like the leadership of that company and how close it is, how divisive they're in terms of politics.

Have you tried the new GLM 4.7?

I've been using GLM 4.7 alongside Opus 4.5 and I can't believe how bad it is. Seriously.

I spent 20 minutes yesterday trying to get GLM 4.7 to understand that a simple modal on a web page (vanilla JS and HTML!) wasn't displaying when a certain button was clicked. I hooked it up to Chrome MCP in Open Code as well.

It constantly told me that it fixed the problem. In frustration, I opened Claude Code and just typed "Why won't the button with ID 'edit' work???!"

It fixed the problem in one shot. This isn't even a hard problem (and I could have just fixed it myself but I guess sunk cost fallacy).

Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#29

Qwen team, please please please, release something to outperform and surpass the coding abilities of Opus 4.5. Although I like the model, I don't like the leadership of that company and how close it is, how divisive they're in terms of politics.

They were just waiting for someone in the comments to ask!

It really is the best way to incentivize politeness!

Re: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

#30

Qwen team, please please please, release something to outperform and surpass the coding abilities of Opus 4.5. Although I like the model, I don't like the leadership of that company and how close it is, how divisive they're in terms of politics.

The Chinese labs distill the SOTA models to boost the performance of theirs. They are a trailer hooked up (with a 3-6 month long chain) to the trucks pushing the technology forwards. I've yet to see a trailer overtake it's truck. China would need an architectural breakthrough to leap American labs given the huge compute disparity.

I would be happy with an openweight 3 month old Claude
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