Posts tagged with: ASR

Qwen3-ASR: Alibaba’s Open‑Source 52‑Language ASR Model

Alibaba Cloud’s latest release, Qwen3‑ASR, brings state‑of‑the‑art multilingual speech recognition to the open‑source community. Supporting 52 languages and 22 Chinese dialects, the two 1.7B/0.6B models excel on benchmarks and rival commercial APIs. The repo ships with a full inference toolkit that works with transformers or the high‑performance vLLM backend, automatic timestamping via the Qwen3‑ForcedAligner, and a ready‑to‑run Gradio demo. Whether you’re a researcher, developer, or hobbyist, this guide walks you through downloading, setting up, benchmarking, and deploying Qwen3‑ASR in Docker or directly on GPU, so you can start transcribing speech, music, and songs with ease. Key highlights: multilingual support, streaming inference, forced‑alignment, quick‑start scripts, Docker deployments, and API integration with OpenAI‑compatible endpoints.