# OmniVoice vs Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice

> Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice scores 58 (C) to OmniVoice's 56.9 (C) for text-to-speech. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice scores 58 (C) on agent readiness against OmniVoice's 56.9 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. OmniVoice leads on capability and documentation and upkeep. Both do text-to-speech.

- OmniVoice: grade C, 56.9/100, rank #72 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/omnivoice.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/omnivoice.json
- Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice: grade C, 58/100, rank #67 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice.json
- Best text-to-speech APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/text-to-speech/index.md
- All 76 tts comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/text-to-speech/index.md
- Best voice cloning and custom voice APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-cloning/index.md
- All 76 cloning comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-cloning/index.md

## Which one, for what

### OmniVoice (C)

Good for: Research and non-commercial agents that need cloning or designed voices in low-resource languages on a small GPU

Ahead on:
- Capability, 86 against 71
- Documentation and upkeep, 48 against 36

Watch for: Weights are non-commercial by the card, and the bundled tokenizer adds Boson AI's licence with a 100,000-user threshold

### Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice (C)

Good for: Agents with a CUDA GPU that need local, instruction-styled speech from fixed voices in major languages

Ahead on:
- Reach, 60 against 40
- Risk, 45 against 35
- Agent interface, 55 against 50

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.3 out of 5

Watch for: Not in any released version of Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio, only Qwen's package and vLLM-Omni


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | OmniVoice | Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 86 | 71 | OmniVoice +15 |
| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 40 | 60 | Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice +20 |
| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 35 | 45 | Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice +10 |
| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 50 | 55 | Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice +5 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 48 | 36 | OmniVoice +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **56.9 · C** | **58 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | OmniVoice | Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | k2-fsa (Next-gen Kaldi) | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | CC-BY-NC (weights, per the card); Apache-2.0 (code) | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-07-03 | 2026-01-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**OmniVoice.** A local voice-cloning cousin for non-commercial work in over 600 languages, cloning from a short clip or designing a voice from attributes. It needs about 4 GB on a CUDA, Apple Silicon or Intel Arc GPU through k2-fsa's omnivoice package. The main risk is the licence, changed from Apache 2.0 to non-commercial in July 2026 without a note.

**Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice.** A local speech cousin with a fixed set of good voices in ten languages, emotion and pace set by a plain instruction, under plain Apache 2.0. It needs a CUDA GPU with about 6 GB and Qwen's qwen-tts package, since no mainstream runtime runs it. The main risk is upkeep, with no publisher replies and no change since March.

## Before you call either

### OmniVoice

1. Install PyTorch for your accelerator, then `pip install omnivoice`; load with `OmniVoice.from_pretrained('k2-fsa/OmniVoice', device_map='cuda:0', dtype=torch.float16)` (or mps, or xpu)
2. Clone with `model.generate(text=..., ref_audio='ref.wav', ref_text='...')`; omitting ref_text loads a Whisper model to transcribe the clip
3. Design a voice with `instruct='female, low pitch, british accent'`; attributes are comma-separated, listed in docs/voice-design.md
4. Output is a list of numpy arrays at 24 kHz; write with `sf.write('out.wav', audio[0], 24000)`
5. Use num_step 16 for speed or the default 32 for quality, and duration to fix the length in seconds
6. From the shell, `omnivoice-infer --model k2-fsa/OmniVoice --text ... --output out.wav`; `omnivoice-infer-batch` spreads work across GPUs
7. Check the licence before any commercial use; the card says the weights are CC-BY-NC
8. Only clone a voice you have the right to use

### Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice

1. Install with `pip install -U qwen-tts` in Python 3.12, then load `Qwen3TTSModel.from_pretrained('Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice', device_map='cuda:0', dtype=torch.bfloat16)`
2. Call `generate_custom_voice(text=..., language=..., speaker=..., instruct=...)`; it returns `(wavs, sr)`, write `wavs[0]` with soundfile
3. Speakers are Vivian, Serena, Uncle_Fu, Dylan, Eric, Ryan, Aiden, Ono_Anna and Sohee; `get_supported_speakers()` is authoritative, and each sounds best in its native language
4. Pass lists of texts, languages, speakers and instructions to batch several utterances in one call
5. For a browser UI, `qwen-tts-demo Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice --ip 127.0.0.1 --port 8000`; there is no HTTP API in the package
6. FlashAttention 2 lowers memory and needs float16 or bfloat16
7. For cloning from a reference clip use Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base instead

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, OmniVoice or Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice?

Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B CustomVoice scores 58 (C) on agent readiness against OmniVoice's 56.9 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. OmniVoice leads on capability and documentation and upkeep.


## For agents

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