A prerequisite for Qwen3-TTS speech
This free DLC supplies the Qwen3-TTS inference components used by Zhiqiu. It contains no character voice model and has no standalone launcher. Installing this component alone does not enable speech generation.
Install the complete set
- The Zhiqiu base game.
- The GPT-SoVITS voice-runtime DLC: install this prerequisite first because it supplies the shared Python environment.
- This Qwen3-TTS voice-runtime DLC.
- The separately installed Zhiqiu Qwen3-TTS voice-model DLC. The model is not included in this runtime.
Installation and use
- In the Steam library, open the base game’s Properties > DLC, enable both runtimes and the Qwen3-TTS voice model, and wait for every download to finish.
- Launch the base game. Open Settings > Resources & MODs and check that both runtimes and the model are recognized. Install any missing component shown there.
- Select the Qwen3-TTS voice model and enable real-time text-to-speech (TTS) in Settings > Voice. Wait for initialization and the voice service to become ready.
- Edit a character’s petting line to hear newly synthesized speech. Turn off the option to prioritize attached pre-recorded audio when testing live synthesis.
Generative AI and performance
With its prerequisites and matching voice model installed, this DLC runs local generative AI to synthesize new speech audio from text. It does not generate chat-response text. Qwen3-TTS requires a higher-performance computer; initial loading and synthesis take time and depend on your CPU, GPU and memory. The base game’s fixed pre-recorded voices do not require this DLC.
