Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS Tops Artificial Analysis Voice Leaderboard with 1177 Elo

Alibaba Group's Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS has topped Artificial Analysis's Controlled Voice Arena voice leaderboard with an Elo score of 1177 as of September 28, 2026. The model supports multilingual and dialect synthesis, same-timbre cross-lingual transfer, and instruction-based control of emotion, speech rate, and expression. It is part of the Qwen-Audio-3.1 series released at the 2026 Apsara Conference, alongside ASR and Realtime models; APIs for all three are available on the Qwen AI platform, and voice model prices were cut by up to 95%.

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