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Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the competition in the text-to-speech rankings

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Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the competition in the text-to-speech rankings

The Decoder · Jul 21, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena leaderboard. The model supports 16 languages and lets users control speaking style with natural language or tags like [angry]. At 16 characters per second, though, it's far slower than rivals Sonic 3.5 and Simba 3.2. The article Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.…