Emotions on a cloned voice: a 25 MB graft, a steering vector, and a lot of dead ends
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Part of qwen3-tts — a pure C inference engine for Qwen3-TTS. TL;DR Qwen3-TTS ships 9 neutral preset speakers. No emotion control, and cloning a voice used to mean a huge file that couldn't emote at all. We changed both: Small clones. A cloned voice is now a ~25 MB .qvoice "graft" — small enough to share, and, crucially, built so the emotion machinery still works on it. Emotions on any voice. One flag — --emotion — works on presets and cloned voices , in every supported language. Mixing…
1Key Takeaways
- Part of qwen3-tts — a pure C inference engine for Qwen3-TTS.
- TL;DR Qwen3-TTS ships 9 neutral preset speakers.
- No emotion control, and cloning a voice used to mean a huge file that couldn't emote at all.
- A cloned voice is now a ~25 MB .qvoice "graft" — small enough to share, and, crucially, built so the emotion machinery still works on it.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that part of qwen3-tts — a pure C inference engine for Qwen3-TTS.
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