Jin Daily AI Trivia – Goodbye ElevenLabs, Hello Qwen3-TTS

Jin Daily AI Trivia – Goodbye ElevenLabs, Hello Qwen3-TTS

Alibaba just dropped Qwen3-TTS, an open‑source voice cloning model that runs locally – Raspberry Pi, MacBooks, even phones – yet sounds close enough to Commercial TTS (ElevenLabs) to fool humans in short conversations. ​ Give it a few minutes of audio and a transcript, and you get a working voice clone. No cloud. No API. No permission. ​ Voice authentication is now officially dead tech. Banks were still selling it as “secure” not that long ago. ​ At 0.6B–1.7B parameters, Qwen3-TTS delivers “good enough” quality – easily 80–90% of what people pay ElevenLabs for in many use cases. ​ The moment someone ships a clean desktop app for Qwen3-TTS with one‑click training and export, the “click synthesize, pay money” business model is going to feel instantly prehistoric (2-3 years ago we think this is hard)

Demo here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS