# Alibaba — Qwen3-ASR & Qwen3-ForcedAligner is Now Open Sourced: Robust, Streaming and Multilingual!

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2026-01-28T16:00:04+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Qwen
- Models affected: Qwen3-ASR-1.7B, Qwen3-ASR-0.6B, Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3asr
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4597-qwen3-asr-qwen3-forcedaligner-is-now-open-sourced-robust-streaming-and

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced the Qwen3-ASR family: two ASR models (1.7B and 0.6B parameters) and a forced alignment model (0.6B), all under Apache 2.0 license.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3asr:

> we open-source the weights of the three models so as to a powerful and easy-using inference-finetune framework under the Apache 2.0 license

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