Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus model claimed the number one position on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Leaderboard, earning an Elo rating of 1,236 based on 1,305 blind user evaluations, edging out SpeechifyAI’s Simba 3.2 by a razor-thin margin of two points. The rankings are determined by crowdsourced blind preference votes, where users listen to speech samples generated from identical text prompts. The current top five includes Alibaba at 1,236 Elo, SpeechifyAI’s Simba 3.2 at 1,234, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS at 1,214, Cartesia’s Sonic 3.5 at 1,207, and Inworld’s Realtime TTS-2 Research Preview at 1,205. The model launched in July 2026 and offers eight distinct voices through Alibaba Cloud’s API, with pricing at $27.6 per million characters. Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab had previously placed its Fun-Realtime-TTS model in the global top five back in May 2026.