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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

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Post by oceanplexian »

javier123454321 wrote: post #41
simonw wrote: post #33

If you want to try out the voice cloning yourself you can do that an this Hugging Face demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS - switch to the "Voice Clone" tab, paste in some example text and use the microphone option to record yourself reading that text - then paste in other text and have it generate a version of that read using your voice. I shared a recording of audio I generated with that here: https:…

This is terrifying. With this and z-image-turbo, we've crossed a chasm. And a very deep one. We are currently protected by screens, we can, and should assume everything behind a screen is fake unless rigorously (and systematically, i.e. cryptographically) proven otherwise. We're sleepwalking into this, not enough people know about it.

> This is terrifying.

Far more terrifying is Big Tech having access to a closed version of the same models, in the hands of powerful people with a history of unethical behavior (i.e. Zuckerberg's "Dumb Fucks" comments). In fact it's a miracle and a bit ironic that the Chinese would be the ones to release a plethora of capable open source models, instead of the scraps like we've seen from Google, Meta, OpenAI, etc.

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

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Post by subscribed »

vlovich123 wrote: post #20
throwaw12 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dario said not nice words about China and open models in general: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/anthropic...

I think the least politically divisive issue within the US is concern about China’s growth as it directly threatens the US’s ability to set the world’s agenda. It may be politically divisive if you are aligned with Chinese interests but I don’t see anything politically divisive for a US audience. I expect Chinese CEOs speak in similar terms to a Chinese audience in terms of making sure they’re decoupled from the now…

Looking at the last year's US agenda I'm okay with that.

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

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Post by stuckkeys »

mortsnort wrote: post #15
throwaw12 wrote: post #6

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!

I loled hard at this. Thank you kind stranger.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

overfeed wrote: post #87
jacquesm wrote: post #59

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Volume is easy: they have far more people, it is quality that counts.

Perhaps you should pay attention to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is currently. Lots of original ideas are coming out of Chinese AI research[1], denying this betrays some level of cope. 1. e.g. select any DeepSeek release, and read the accompanying paper

I'll pay attention to where the puck is because that is something I can observe, where it is going to be is anybody's guess. Lots of original ideas are coming out of Chinese AI research but there is also lots of junk. I think in the longer term they will have the advantage but right now that simply isn't the case.

Your 'cope' accusation has no place here, I have no dog in the race and do not need to cope with anything.

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

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Post by javier123454321 »

oceanplexian wrote: post #91
javier123454321 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is terrifying. With this and z-image-turbo, we've crossed a chasm. And a very deep one. We are currently protected by screens, we can, and should assume everything behind a screen is fake unless rigorously (and systematically, i.e. cryptographically) proven otherwise. We're sleepwalking into this, not enough people know about it.

> This is terrifying. Far more terrifying is Big Tech having access to a closed version of the same models, in the hands of powerful people with a history of unethical behavior (i.e. Zuckerberg's "Dumb Fucks" comments). In fact it's a miracle and a bit ironic that the Chinese would be the ones to release a plethora of capable open source models, instead of the scraps like we've seen from Google, Meta, OpenAI, etc.

I do strongly agree. Though the societal impact is only mitigated by open models, not curtailed at all.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Footprint0521 wrote: post #80
whinvik wrote: post #55

Haha something that I want to try out. I have started using voice input more and more instead of typing and now I am on my second app and second TTS model, namely Handy and Parakeet V3. Parakeet is pretty good, but there are times it struggles. Would be interesting to see how Qwen compares once Handy has it in.

Why parakeet over whisper v3 turbo? Just curious as one who heavily uses whisper, I’ve seemed to have better results with that

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

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Post by whinvik »

Footprint0521 wrote: post #80
whinvik wrote: post #55

Haha something that I want to try out. I have started using voice input more and more instead of typing and now I am on my second app and second TTS model, namely Handy and Parakeet V3. Parakeet is pretty good, but there are times it struggles. Would be interesting to see how Qwen compares once Handy has it in.

Why parakeet over whisper v3 turbo? Just curious as one who heavily uses whisper, I’ve seemed to have better results with that

Parakeet is much smaller and for me the perf/speed combo has just been better.

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

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Post by stavros »

nunodonato wrote: post #53
pseudony wrote: post #47

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Same issue (I am Danish). Have you tested alternatives? I grabbed Open Code and a Minimax m2.1 subscription, even just the 10usd/mo one to test with. Result? We designed a spec for a slight variation of a tool for which I wrote a spec with Claude - same problem (process supervisor tool), from scratch. Honestly, it worked great, I have played a little further with generating code (this time golang), again, I am happy.…

I've been using GLM 4.7 with Claude Code. best of both worlds. Canceled my Anthropic subscription due to the US politics as well. Already started my "withdrawal" in Jan 2025, Anthropic was one of the few that was left

I much prefer OpenCode these days, give it a try.

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

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Post by stavros »

bigyabai wrote: post #56
nunodonato wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using GLM 4.7 with Claude Code. best of both worlds. Canceled my Anthropic subscription due to the US politics as well. Already started my "withdrawal" in Jan 2025, Anthropic was one of the few that was left

I'm in the same boat. Sonnet was overkill for me, and GLM is cheap and smart enough to spit out boilerplate and FFMPEG commands whenever it's asked. $20/month is a bit of an insane ask when the most valuable thing Anthropic makes is the free Claude Code CLI.

I don't know, I max out my Opus limits regularly. I guess it depends on usage.
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