Qwen3-Omni Technical Report
About
We present Qwen3-Omni, a single multimodal model that, for the first time, maintains state-of-the-art performance across text, image, audio, and video without any degradation relative to single-modal counterparts. Qwen3-Omni matches the performance of same-sized single-modal models within the Qwen series and excels particularly on audio tasks. Across 36 audio and audio-visual benchmarks, Qwen3-Omni achieves open-source SOTA on 32 benchmarks and overall SOTA on 22, outperforming strong closed-source models such as Gemini-2.5-Pro, Seed-ASR, and GPT-4o-Transcribe. Qwen3-Omni adopts a Thinker-Talker MoE architecture that unifies perception and generation across text, images, audio, and video, yielding fluent text and natural real-time speech. It supports text interaction in 119 languages, speech understanding in 19 languages, and speech generation in 10 languages. To reduce first-packet latency in streaming synthesis, Talker autoregressively predicts discrete speech codecs using a multi-codebook scheme. Leveraging the representational capacity of these codebooks, we replace computationally intensive block-wise diffusion with a lightweight causal ConvNet, enabling streaming from the first codec frame. In cold-start settings, Qwen3-Omni achieves a theoretical end-to-end first-packet latency of 234 ms. To further strengthen multimodal reasoning, we introduce a Thinking model that explicitly reasons over inputs from any modality. Since the research community currently lacks a general-purpose audio captioning model, we fine-tuned Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B to obtain Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner, which produces detailed, low-hallucination captions for arbitrary audio inputs. Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking, and Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner are publicly released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech (test-other) | WER2.93 | 966 | |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech clean (test) | WER1.6 | 833 | |
| Video Understanding | VideoMME | Overall Score70.5 | 192 | |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech Other | WER2.48 | 75 | |
| Long Video Understanding | LVBench | Accuracy0.502 | 63 | |
| Automatic Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech Clean | WER1.22 | 57 | |
| Text-to-Speech | Seed-TTS en (test) | WER1.39 | 50 | |
| Audio-visual understanding | DailyOmni | Average Score72.08 | 49 | |
| Text-to-Speech | Seed-TTS zh (test) | WER1.07 | 47 | |
| Instruction Following | IFEval (test) | IFEval Score81.17 | 45 |