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Alibaba Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus Dominates Voice Ranking

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Alibaba Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus Dominates Voice Ranking

Alibaba Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus Dominates Voice Ranking
Key Takeaways
1Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the Speech Arena ranking by Artificial Analysis.
2This innovative model supports 16 languages and offers advanced speech style control.
3Despite its dominance, its speed of 16 characters per second is lower than that of Sonic 3.5 and Simba 3.2.
💡Why it mattersAlibaba's performance in voice synthesis demonstrates its growing influence in the global tech sector.
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Alibaba Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus Dominates Voice Ranking

Alibaba's new text-to-speech model, Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus, is leading the supplier voice rankings in the Artificial Analysis dashboard. With an Elo score of 1,236, it narrowly surpasses Simba 3.2 (1,234). Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (1,214) and Sonic 3.5 (1,207) follow behind.

The model comes in two versions. Flash is designed for real-time interaction with around 300 milliseconds of latency, while Plus aims for high-quality voice output. It supports 16 languages, including less commonly covered languages such as Tagalog, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese, as well as several Chinese dialects. Users can steer the speech style with natural language or add non-verbal cues using tags like "[angry]" or "[laughing]." Alibaba also claims that the model handles noisy or reverberant reference recordings better than previous versions when cloning voices.

Speed is a weak point: at 16 characters per second, it is significantly outpaced by Sonic 3.5 (120) and Simba 3.2 (30.2). The price is $27.60 per million characters via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. A collection of audio samples is available.

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