Shanghainese dialect TTS

Qwen-TTS Updated with Chinese Dialect Support and Bilingual Voices

Alibaba's Qwen team has released an update to Qwen-TTS (qwen-tts-2025-05-22), a text-to-speech model trained on millions of hours of speech data. The model claims human-level naturalness and expressiveness, with automatic prosody and emotional inflection adjustment. A notable new capability is support for three Chinese dialects—Pekingese, Shanghainese, and Sichuanese—delivered through seven named Chinese-English bilingual voices accessible via the Qwen API.