Alibaba · Voice

Qwen3 TTS 1.7B VoiceDesign

Commercial use permittedApache License 2.0

The text-described-voice variant of the 1.7B model: the same idea as Irodori's VoiceDesign. Describing a voice avoids most of the consent problems of cloning from a reference clip, so prefer it where it does the job.

The licence

Summarized from the linked source documents, last checked 25 August 2026. Every claim links to its source; anything unconfirmed is marked unconfirmed.

Apache License 2.0

Commercial use permitted

Apache-2.0. Commercial use is permitted, with no revenue cap and no research-only carve-out. Keep the copyright and licence notices when you redistribute the weights.

What about the audio you generate?

Apache-2.0 claims nothing over output. The Qwen3 TTS cards carry no acceptable-use policy and no voice-cloning consent clause. Getting consent for any reference voice you supply is your responsibility; no licence term covers it.

Correction to the shipped catalog: The shipped catalog says "Unknown". It is Apache-2.0, verified on this repo.

Based on the licence text as of the date below. Licences change; the links carry the authoritative version.

Specs

Transcribed from the shipped catalog, audiocpp_models_catalog.json — that file is authoritative if a number here disagrees with it.

Vendor
Alibaba
Catalog id
audiocpp-qwen3-tts-1-7b-voicedesign
audio.cpp loader family
qwen3_tts
Can do
Text to speech
Weights file
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign-GGUF/qwen3-tts-12hz-1.7b-voicedesign-q8_0.gguf
Account needed to download
No
Max clip length
60s
Sample rate
44.1kHz mono
Approx. VRAM
3.4 GB
In the picker by default
No — opt in from Settings
Run end-to-end here
No — catalogued, not tested here

Getting it

There is no per-model install. One native binary runs all of these, so getting a model is a download of its weights and nothing else — no virtualenv, no torch pin, no CUDA wheel to match against your driver.

From the CLI
soundbox model install audiocpp
soundbox pull audiocpp-qwen3-tts-1-7b-voicedesign
  • The binary is fetched from audio.cpp's GitHub releases the first time you ask for it and cached under your own data directory. Soundbox ships no native binaries and vendors none.
  • Weights land in <models dir>/audiocpp/audiocpp-qwen3-tts-1-7b-voicedesign/ rather than in the shared Hugging Face cache, so a download stays scoped to the model you asked for.
  • This one is opt-in: switch it on in the Models page's “Enable more models” section before it appears in the picker.

Worth knowing

  • Opt-in and untested here.

Sources

Primary sources: the model's own repository, the project it came from, and the conversion audio.cpp actually downloads. Never invented — an entry with nothing findable says so instead.

Licence details on these pages are summaries of the linked source documents, last checked 25 August 2026. They are not legal advice, and Soundbox is not affiliated with any model's authors — weights download from Hugging Face under the user's own account and terms. Company and model names identify whose work it is, and belong to their owners. The linked licence text is authoritative; commercial use should be checked against it, per model, before anything ships.