Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice

Qwen3-TTS is a series of advanced multilingual, controllable, robust, and streaming text-to-speech models developed by the Qwen team.

This specific checkpoint is the 0.6B CustomVoice variant, based on the 12Hz tokenizer. It supports 9 premium timbres and allows for fine-grained style control over target voices via natural language instructions across 10 major languages.

• Paper: Qwen3-TTS Technical Report
• GitHub: QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS
• Demo: Hugging Face Spaces

Key Features

• Multilingual Synthesis: Supports Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
• Intelligent Control: Adapts tone, rhythm, and emotional expression based on natural language instructions (e.g., "Speak in a very happy tone").
• Low Latency: Optimized for streaming generation with the Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz, achieving end-to-end synthesis latency as low as 97ms.

Quickstart

To use Qwen3-TTS, you can install the qwen-tts package:

pip install -U qwen-tts

Sample Usage

import torch
import soundfile as sf
from qwen_tts import Qwen3TTSModel

# Load the model
model = Qwen3TTSModel.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice",
    device_map="cuda:0",
    dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
)

# Generate speech with specific instructions
wavs, sr = model.generate_custom_voice(
    text="其实我真的有发现，我是一个特别善于观察别人情绪的人。",
    language="Chinese", 
    speaker="Vivian",
    instruct="用特别愤怒的语气说", 
)

# Save the generated audio
sf.write("output_custom_voice.wav", wavs[0], sr)

Supported Speakers

For Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-0.6B-CustomVoice, the following speakers are supported. We recommend using each speaker’s native language for the best results:

Speaker	Voice Description	Native Language
Vivian	Bright young female voice.	Chinese
Serena	Warm, gentle young female voice.	Chinese
Uncle_Fu	Seasoned male voice, mellow timbre.	Chinese
Dylan	Youthful Beijing male voice.	Chinese (Beijing)
Eric	Lively Chengdu male voice.	Chinese (Sichuan)
Ryan	Dynamic male voice with rhythm.	English
Aiden	Sunny American male voice.	English
Ono_Anna	Playful Japanese female voice.	Japanese
Sohee	Warm Korean female voice.	Korean

Citation

If you find Qwen3-TTS useful for your research, please consider citing:

@article{Qwen3-TTS,
  title={Qwen3-TTS Technical Report},
  author={Hangrui Hu and Xinfa Zhu and Ting He and Dake Guo and Bin Zhang and Xiong Wang and Zhifang Guo and Ziyue Jiang and Hongkun Hao and Zishan Guo and Xinyu Zhang and Pei Zhang and Baosong Yang and Jin Xu and Jingren Zhou and Junyang Lin},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15621},
  year={2026}
}