Episode 1837 • • 1:29:51 - 1:35:30
1837: Moral Injury
Qwen3-TTS, Alibaba Open Source, AI Voice Synthesis
Alibaba has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a lightweight AI model for text-to-speech synthesis that rivals commercial products like 11 Labs. The model can be run locally on Linux systems and allows users to sample and replicate voices for free. A live demonstration of the technology via Hugging Face illustrates the rapid advancement of decentralized AI tools coming out of China.