Qwen releases open 1.7B ASR model

// 82d agoMODEL RELEASE

Qwen releases open 1.7B ASR model

Qwen has published Qwen3-ASR-1.7B on Hugging Face as an open Apache-2.0 automatic speech recognition model. It gives developers a compact, self-hostable option for multilingual transcription and voice feature pipelines.

// ANALYSIS

This is a practical release for teams that need speech recognition quality without deploying giant audio stacks.

–1.7B size is small enough to widen on-prem and edge deployment options.
–Open weights on Hugging Face reduce integration friction for existing ML workflows.
–Adds pressure on Whisper-style defaults by giving builders another strong open ASR path.

// TAGS

qwen3-asr-1.7bspeechllmopen-sourceapi

DISCOVERED

82d ago

2026-03-05

PUBLISHED

83d ago

2026-03-05

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

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