Research

Nari Qwen3-TTS Preview Ranked #1 in Latency on Speko

Speko, a leading platform for voice AI infrastructure and benchmarking, independently measured an experimental Nari Qwen3-TTS endpoint at 51 ms p50 and 52 ms p90 time to first audio from US East. It was the fastest endpoint in the benchmark snapshot.

Speko TTS benchmark snapshot as of Aug 30, 2026.
Speko Text-to-Speech benchmark showing Nari Qwen3-TTS at 51 ms p50 time to first audio and approximately 1526 naturalness Elo

Results

  • p50 TTFA: 51 ms, versus 78 ms for the next-fastest result
  • p90 TTFA: 52 ms, versus 85 ms for the next-fastest result
  • Naturalness: ~1,526 Elo, above the 1,500 field average and ahead of xAI Grok (1,495) and Rime (1,429). We also outperformed Alibaba’s vanilla Qwen3-TTS endpoint (1,310) by 216 points.

Our results are hidden on Speko’s live benchmark as it is still not generally available. Book a call for Early Access to our inference platform.