# 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.

- Published: 2026-07-24T05:33:38.818Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-07-24/alibaba-s-qwen-audio-3-0-tts-tops-an-independent-speech-lead
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/20/alibabas-tongyi-lab-releases-qwen-audio-3-0-tts-a-hosted-text-to-speech-model-in-flash-and-plus-tiers-across-16-languages/), [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-qwen-audio-3-0-tts-plus-tops-the-competition-in-the-text-to-speech-rankings/)

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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