How fast is Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b?

Coval measures a median time to first audio of 103.6 ms and a P95 of 136.6 ms for Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b, over 30 days from the US East in English (Fast enough tier).

How much does Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b cost?

No benchmark prints a list price for Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b.

Which languages was Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b tested in?

No source tested Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b in a language other than English.

Alibaba (Qwen) · Open weights · Read 2026-10-27

Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b: latency, voice quality, price and languages

Rank: 4 / 23
Speed tier: Fast enough
P95: 136.6 ms
Price / 1M chars: n/a

Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b is an open-weights text-to-speech model from Alibaba (Qwen). Coval measures a median of 103.6 ms and a P95 of 136.6 ms to first audio, which puts it in the Fast enough speed tier, rank 4 of 23 in the multilingual ranking. No source tested it in a language other than English.

This summary is generated from the measures below; it is not a vendor description. Measures a source does not hold are shown as n/a and are never estimated.

Speed (Coval, 30 days, US East, English)

Speed tier	Fast enough
Median time to first audio	103.6 ms
P90	129.3 ms
P95	136.6 ms
Mean	105.4 ms
Standard deviation	17.8 ms
Calls in the window	2,586
Cekura median, streamed text	n/a
Cekura median, full text	n/a

Voice quality (never added together)

Listener Elo (Artificial Analysis)	n/a
Customer-service Elo (Artificial Analysis)	n/a
Naturalness (Speko)	n/a
Naturalness estimate (Cekura, 1 to 5)	n/a

Accuracy

Reading accuracy (Cekura)	n/a
Numbers (Cekura)	n/a
Codes (Cekura)	n/a
Context (Cekura)	n/a
Medical terms (Cekura)	n/a
Hard passages judged correct (Artificial Analysis)	n/a
Numbers and dates (Speko score)	n/a
Word error rate (Coval)	1.9%

Price per 1 million characters

Range across sources	n/a
Artificial Analysis	n/a
Speko	n/a
Coval	n/a
Cekura	n/a

Coverage

Access	Open weights
Streaming	Measured
Coval tags	multilingual, voice-cloning
Rated for	Voice agents
Languages tested	none beyond English

Not collected

Naturalness (Speko naturalness): not measured by Speko (reading of 2026-10-27)
Listener rating (Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Elo): not measured by Artificial Analysis (reading of 2026-10-27)
Numbers and dates (Speko pronunciation score): not measured by Speko (reading of 2026-10-27)
Price (Artificial Analysis price per 1M characters): not measured by Artificial Analysis (reading of 2026-10-27)

Sources

https://benchmarks-api-6wxgp27p2a-ue.a.run.app/v1/results/aggregates?benchmark=TTS&window=30d&include_series=false (read 2026-10-27)
Vendor site: https://qwen.ai/

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Frequently asked questions

How fast is Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b?: Coval measures a median time to first audio of 103.6 ms and a P95 of 136.6 ms for Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b, over 30 days from the US East in English (Fast enough tier).
How much does Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b cost?: No benchmark prints a list price for Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b.
Which languages was Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b tested in?: No source tested Alibaba Qwen3 TTS 1.7b in a language other than English.