--- title: "Qwen3-TTS Demo" kind: "Kit" category: "Productivity" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/87f11a99-e2cb-4127-8c00-d911a159e132" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # Qwen3-TTS Demo > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Turns typed text into speech with the Qwen3-TTS models on a Gradio page, in the browser or on your own computer. For anyone who wants to hear the model's voices or see how the demo is wired. Qwen3-TTS Demo is a kit in the Productivity category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by Qwen ## About ### What it is Qwen3-TTS Demo is a Gradio page from the Qwen team for trying their text-to-speech models. It names three 1.7B checkpoints called Base, CustomVoice and VoiceDesign. You can use it in the browser with nothing to install. ### Who it suits It suits people who want to hear what a modern open speech model sounds like, and developers who want to see how a demo around one is built. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Software | Developers | Read the demo code before adding speech to an app | Look through app.py and the qwen\_tts folder | | Media | Content creators | Try spoken versions of a short script | Type a few lines and play the audio that comes back | | Research | Speech researchers | Compare the three named checkpoints in one place | Run the same text through each model the Space names | | Education | Teachers and students | Hear written material read aloud | Paste a short passage and listen to it | Skip it if you need a finished product with its own app or support, since this is a demo page. ### Where to use it - A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face - Your own Windows, macOS or Linux computer with Python | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Hear text read aloud | Creators | Generated speech for the text you give it | | Try the named models | Researchers | A way to listen to Base, CustomVoice and VoiceDesign | | Study the demo | Developers | A small Gradio app you can read and change | ### How to set it up The online page needs nothing. A local copy needs Python and the packages listed in requirements.txt. - Python and pip - The packages listed in requirements.txt - Windows, macOS or Linux 1. Install the Hugging Face hub library. 2. Download the Space's files into a folder named Qwen3-TTS. 3. Move into that folder. 4. Install Gradio 5.33.0, then the packages from requirements.txt. 5. Start app.py. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download Qwen/Qwen3-TTS --repo-type space --local-dir Qwen3-TTS cd Qwen3-TTS pip install gradio==5.33.0 pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py ``` ### How to use it Open the Space's page and use the form it shows. For a local copy, run the last command above and open the address it prints in your browser. ```sh python app.py ``` ### Example You open the page, give it a short piece of text and ask for speech. The page runs a model and returns audio you can play back in the browser. ### For newcomers and experts Open the online page and give it one short sentence. Play the audio that comes back before you try anything longer. The app is built with Gradio 5.33.0, and its main file is app.py. The Hugging Face copy runs on ZeroGPU hardware, which hands out a GPU per request. The repository holds app.py, a qwen\_tts folder and requirements.txt. The record gives no README, so it does not describe the page's settings or what separates the three checkpoints. Open the page → Give it the text to speak → A Qwen3-TTS model runs → Play the audio ### Good to know - Hardware: The Hugging Face copy runs on ZeroGPU hardware. - Gaps: The source has no README, so voice options and limits are not described here. - License: apache-2. - Cost to run: none named. - Data it reaches: The text you give it. A local copy also downloads the packages in requirements.txt. ## README ````markdown # Qwen3-TTS Demo Turns typed text into speech with the Qwen3-TTS models on a Gradio page, in the browser or on your own computer. For anyone who wants to hear the model's voices or see how the demo is wired. Made by Qwen on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: Qwen3-TTS Demo is a Gradio page from the Qwen team for trying their text-to-speech models. It names three 1.7B checkpoints called Base, CustomVoice and VoiceDesign. You can use it in the browser with nothing to install. Who it suits: It suits people who want to hear what a modern open speech model sounds like, and developers who want to see how a demo around one is built. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Software | Developers | Read the demo code before adding speech to an app | Look through app.py and the qwen_tts folder Media | Content creators | Try spoken versions of a short script | Type a few lines and play the audio that comes back Research | Speech researchers | Compare the three named checkpoints in one place | Run the same text through each model the Space names Education | Teachers and students | Hear written material read aloud | Paste a short passage and listen to it ``` Skip it if you need a finished product with its own app or support, since this is a demo page. Where to use it: - A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face - Your own Windows, macOS or Linux computer with Python ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Hear text read aloud | Creators | Generated speech for the text you give it Try the named models | Researchers | A way to listen to Base, CustomVoice and VoiceDesign Study the demo | Developers | A small Gradio app you can read and change ``` How to set it up: The online page needs nothing. A local copy needs Python and the packages listed in requirements.txt. - Python and pip - The packages listed in requirements.txt - Windows, macOS or Linux 1. Install the Hugging Face hub library. 2. Download the Space's files into a folder named Qwen3-TTS. 3. Move into that folder. 4. Install Gradio 5.33.0, then the packages from requirements.txt. 5. Start app.py. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download Qwen/Qwen3-TTS --repo-type space --local-dir Qwen3-TTS cd Qwen3-TTS pip install gradio==5.33.0 pip install -r requirements.txt python app.py ``` How to use it: Open the Space's page and use the form it shows. For a local copy, run the last command above and open the address it prints in your browser. ```sh python app.py ``` Example: You open the page, give it a short piece of text and ask for speech. The page runs a model and returns audio you can play back in the browser. For newcomers and experts: Open the online page and give it one short sentence. Play the audio that comes back before you try anything longer. The app is built with Gradio 5.33.0, and its main file is app.py. The Hugging Face copy runs on ZeroGPU hardware, which hands out a GPU per request. The repository holds app.py, a qwen_tts folder and requirements.txt. The record gives no README, so it does not describe the page's settings or what separates the three checkpoints. ```flow Open the page Give it the text to speak A Qwen3-TTS model runs Play the audio ``` Good to know: - Hardware: The Hugging Face copy runs on ZeroGPU hardware. - Gaps: The source has no README, so voice options and limits are not described here. - License: apache-2. - Cost to run: none named. - Data it reaches: The text you give it. A local copy also downloads the packages in requirements.txt. ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Likes: 2,410 - Built with: gradio - License: apache-2.0 ## Links - Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS - Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS/tree/main ## Try it Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 4 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 4 KB ``` ## Source [Qwen/Qwen3-TTS on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face Spaces in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Likes | Built with | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Qwen3-TTS Demo (this page) | 2,410 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2026-06-09 | | [MusicGen](https://mindket.com/p/07af2531-69de-4005-a4f6-8c16dd10048d) | 5,116 | gradio | cc-by-nc-4.0 | 2026-05-27 | | [Kokoro TTS](https://mindket.com/p/aa996ded-5768-48f4-b403-33520c1b1bdf) | 3,556 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2025-04-09 | | [Background Removal](https://mindket.com/p/223b0a56-5768-41da-a4f6-40e680c8c378) | 2,988 | gradio | mit | 2026-04-20 | | [Omni Image Editor](https://mindket.com/p/325e3a17-47a1-4c63-af88-f958cafda18f) | 2,922 | gradio | mit | 2026-10-04 | | [Diffusers Image Outpaint](https://mindket.com/p/17629f6c-cc47-4be0-bc83-ff22dfa7389a) | 2,565 | gradio | apache-2.0 | 2026-05-13 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, on 2026-11-12. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-12. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · pratik227 · 2026-01-23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728573): Show HN: Audio AI had a wild day – 5 major open-source / real-time TTS drops: The audio/TTS space just moved fast. In the last week alone: NVIDIA – PersonaPlex-7B Open-source, full-duplex conversational speech model. Inworld AI – TTS-1.5 Realtime TTS (\<250ms), $0.005/min, currently \#1 on Artificial Analysis. Flash Labs – Chroma 1.0 First open-source, end-to-end, real-time… - [Bluesky · JauntyWunderKind · 2026-01-29](https://bsky.app/profile/jauntywunderkind.bsky.social/post/3mdlu5ej2722s): Qwen3-TTS is just batshit wildly amazing. It's ability to let you describe the speaker you want and get something from it is wild. It's voice cloning is wild. qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen... My ask though, where are models that can describe how you are speaking? Your overall vocal, and your present "mood"? - [Hacker News · exhilaration · 2026-09-23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818923): Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech: You might find this interesting, it seems to be exactly what you need to make an audio drama: https://github.com/Finrandojin/alexandria-audiobook Also the Qwen3-TTS demo is cool, you can describe the voice you want: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS I came across both on this subreddit,… - [Bluesky · Chris Heilmann · 2026-01-28](https://bsky.app/profile/codepo8.bsky.social/post/3mdhuhopdqs2x): Voice cloning with Qwen3 TTS is pretty damn impressive - you can do it on the test site: huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/... - [Hacker News · thangalin · 2026-09-23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818395): Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech: Here's a video of my Emotive Audiobook Creator, KeenLore, a locally hosted web app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAeHgE94rVo No cloud, no tokens to pay. Reads a book using a full cast of characters. Quotation attribution detection (for my novel) is at 97.2% accuracy (485/499 quotes identified… - [Bluesky · Tobias · 2026-01-24](https://bsky.app/profile/gobias.bsky.social/post/3md6xqqvtks2g): Qwen3-TTS ist geil\! Und frei verfügbar. So viele Möglichkeiten\! huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/... - [Hacker News · HanClinto · 2026-01-26](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767322): Anyone Can Clone Your Voice Now: Yes -- you can run inference on HF directly 0. If you want to hear the demos that Simon Willison recorded, he has a nice blog post about it. 1 0 - https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS 1 - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/qwen3-tts/ - [Bluesky · @aigensme.bsky.social · 2026-11-10](https://bsky.app/profile/aigensme.bsky.social/post/3mzxvfukfsj2f): ElevenLabs costs you every month, but three free models can replace it. If you make voice overs, you pay per character with ElevenLabs. Open source models run on your own computer, and your voice stays private. Number one: Qwen3-TTS from Alibaba. The Qwen team built it for speech in many… - [Hacker News · BadBadJellyBean · 2026-01-26](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767149): Anyone Can Clone Your Voice Now: Official demos: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS https://modelscope.cn/studios/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS You can even do it on your PC. I did it via ComfyUI and this Plugin: https://github.com/flybirdxx/ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS - [Bluesky · Github Repositories · 2026-09-07](https://bsky.app/profile/sigmanor.net/post/3muw23kygcv2p): https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS - [Hacker News · parentheses · 2026-01-23](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729872): Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation: I got some errors trying to run this on my MBP. Claude was able to one-shot a fix. \`\`\` Loaded speech tokenizer from \~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign/snapshots/0e711a1c0aa5aad30654426 e0d11f67716c1211e/speech\_tokenizer Fetching 11 files: 0%\| \| 0/11 00:00\