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Morning Edition · Friday, July 24, 2026Published at 1:33 AM EDT · New York
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Tops an Independent Speech Leaderboard, but as a Closed API
The Plus tier ranks first on the Artificial Analysis text-to-speech (TTS) leaderboard across 16 languages, and is offered without downloadable weights.
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS on July 20 in two hosted tiers, according to MarkTechPost. Flash targets real-time voice interfaces at about 300 milliseconds of first-packet latency, while Plus targets natural, high-fidelit…
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