# Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base — MLX 8-bit

An 8-bit quantized [MLX](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx) conversion of [Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base).

## Details

- **Original model**: Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base
- **Quantization**: 8-bit affine (group size 64)
- **Framework**: MLX
- **Converted with**: [mlx-audio](https://github.com/lucasnewman/mlx-audio)

## Usage

```python
from mlx_audio.tts import TTS

tts = TTS("PatternMapper/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-MLX-8bit")
audio = tts.generate(text="Hello, world!")
```

Or with the mlx-audio CLI:

```bash
mlx_audio.tts.generate --model PatternMapper/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base-MLX-8bit --text "Hello, world!"
```

## License

Apache 2.0 (same as the original model).