Speech-to-text
Qwen3-ASR 1.7B requirements, license & speed
By Alibaba Qwen · released 2026-01-28 · 2.35B parameters
Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingYes
Key facts
- License
- apache-2.0 source
- Commercial use
- Yes sourceApache-2.0
- Parameters
- 2.35B sourcesafetensors parameter count
- Minimum memory
- Not stated by source
- Runs on CPU
- Unknown
- Streaming
- Yes sourceStreaming only with the vLLM backend
- Voice cloning
- n/a (speech-to-text)
- Languages
- 30 languages + 22 Chinese dialects (52 total) source
- Released
- 2026-01-28 sourceHugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
- Gated on HF
- No
Measured speed & memory
Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Qwen3-ASR 1.7B yet. Planned targets: CPU (8 vCPU), Apple Silicon Mac, RTX-class consumer GPU and a rented cloud GPU. Get notified.
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