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Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign

Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign is an AI model made by Alibaba Tongyi. Alibaba Tongyi released it on 22 January 2026. It is generally available.

Alibaba Tongyi

Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign is an AI model made by Alibaba Tongyi. Alibaba Tongyi released it on 22 January 2026. It is generally available. It takes text and returns audio. Its weights are open. Its licence is Apache-2.0.

Released
22 January 2026 — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Status
Generally available — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Takes
Text — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Returns
Audio — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Open weights
Yes — github.com, read 16 October 2026
Licence
Apache-2.0 — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Context window
Not confirmed: The maker's model card and API documentation do not print a standard context-window size for this model.
Longest answer
Not confirmed: The maker's model card and API documentation do not print a standard maximum output-token limit for this model.
Knowledge cutoff
Not confirmed: The maker's model card and documentation do not print a knowledge-cutoff date for this model.
API price, input
Not confirmed: The maker's pricing page does not print a standard per-1-million-token input price for this model.
API price, output
Not confirmed: The maker's pricing page does not print a standard per-1-million-token output price for this model.
Where
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: api, weights and weights
Parameters
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 2000000000 and 1700000000
Model card
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026

Questions

When was Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign released?

Alibaba Tongyi released Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign on 22 January 2026.

Is Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign still available?

Yes: it is generally available, as Alibaba Tongyi states it.

Are the weights of Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign open?

Yes: Alibaba Tongyi publishes the weights of Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign for download.

What is the licence of Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign?

The licence of Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign is Apache-2.0, as Alibaba Tongyi names it.

What does Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign take and return?

Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign takes text and returns audio.

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Sources

  1. Qwen3-TTS (read 16 October 2026)
  2. Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign (read 16 October 2026)
  3. Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: Model inference pricing (read 16 October 2026)

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