Time to Speak Some Dialects, Qwen-TTS!
Alibaba's Qwen-TTS API adds support for three Chinese dialects (Pekingese, Shanghainese, Sichuanese) alongside seven bilingual voices, expanding voice generation beyond standard Mandarin.
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API DISCORD
Introduction Here we introduce the latest update of Qwen-TTS (qwen-tts-latest or qwen-tts-2025-05-22) through Qwen API . Trained on a large-scale dataset encompassing over millions of hours of speech, Qwen-TTS achieves human-level naturalness and expressiveness. Notably, Qwen-TTS automatically adjusts prosody, pacing, and emotional inflections in response to the input text. Notably, Qwen-TTS supports the generation of 3 Chinese dialects, including Pekingese, Shanghainese, and Sichuanese.
As of now, Qwen-TTS supports 7 Chinese-English bilingual voices, including Cherry, Ethan, Chelsie, Serena, Dylan (Pekingese), Jada (Shanghainese) and Sunny (Sichuanese).
Read at source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-tts/