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Pushing the speed-cost frontier for Qwen3-TTS: sub-50 ms time to first audio

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Nari Labs describes five inference optimizations applied to Qwen3-TTS on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, reaching 10 requests per second and sub-50 ms p95 time to first audio. Throughput is about 630 characters per second at full load, at roughly $2 per 1 million characters. The post benchmarks the result against vLLM-Omni, SGLang-Omni, and VoxServe, and against the commercial services ElevenLabs and Cartesia, claiming lower latency at higher request volumes.

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