diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index abf10621b..1245d8db6 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,35 +3,36 @@ project(goqwen3ttscpp LANGUAGES C CXX)
 set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
 set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
 
-set(QWEN3TTS_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sources/qwen3-tts.cpp)
+set(QWENTTS_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sources/qwentts.cpp)
 
 # Override upstream's CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES before add_subdirectory.
 if(NOT DEFINED CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES)
     set(CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES "75-virtual;80-virtual;86-real;89-real")
 endif()
 
-# Build ggml from the upstream's submodule FIRST, so that ggml/ggml-base/ggml-cpu
-# CMake targets exist when the upstream project references them by name.
-# The upstream CMakeLists.txt uses target_link_libraries(... ggml ggml-base ggml-cpu)
-# with target_link_directories pointing at a pre-built ggml/build/. By adding ggml
-# as a subdirectory here, CMake resolves those names as targets instead.
-add_subdirectory(${QWEN3TTS_DIR}/ggml ggml EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+# Add the upstream project. Its own CMakeLists adds ggml + cpp-httplib + yyjson
+# and builds qwen-core (STATIC, the qt_* impl). EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL keeps its CLI
+# tools / tts-server / tests from building unless referenced.
+add_subdirectory(${QWENTTS_DIR} qwentts EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
-# Now add the upstream project
-add_subdirectory(${QWEN3TTS_DIR} qwen3tts EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+# Upstream generates version.h into its own CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR and adds
+# the top-level ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} to qwen-core's include path. Under
+# add_subdirectory those two dirs differ (<build>/qwentts vs <build>), so
+# qwen.cpp cannot find version.h. Point qwen-core at the subproject binary dir
+# where version.h is actually generated. (Fix lives here, never in the fetched
+# upstream checkout.)
+target_include_directories(qwen-core PRIVATE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/qwentts)
 
 add_library(goqwen3ttscpp MODULE cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp)
-target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE qwen3_tts)
+target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE qwen-core)
 
-target_include_directories(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE ${QWEN3TTS_DIR}/src)
-target_include_directories(goqwen3ttscpp SYSTEM PRIVATE ${QWEN3TTS_DIR}/ggml/include)
+target_include_directories(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE ${QWENTTS_DIR}/src)
+target_include_directories(goqwen3ttscpp SYSTEM PRIVATE ${QWENTTS_DIR}/ggml/include)
 
-# Link GPU backends if available
-foreach(backend blas cuda metal vulkan)
+# Link GPU backends if the upstream ggml created them.
+foreach(backend blas cuda metal vulkan sycl)
     if(TARGET ggml-${backend})
         target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE ggml-${backend})
-        string(TOUPPER ${backend} BACKEND_UPPER)
-        target_compile_definitions(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE QWEN3TTS_HAVE_${BACKEND_UPPER})
         if(backend STREQUAL "cuda")
             find_package(CUDAToolkit QUIET)
             if(CUDAToolkit_FOUND)
@@ -44,12 +45,8 @@ endforeach()
 if(MSVC)
     target_compile_options(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE /W4 /wd4100 /wd4505)
 else()
-    target_compile_options(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Wconversion
-                          -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function -Wno-sign-conversion)
-endif()
-
-if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU" AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 9.0)
-    target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE stdc++fs)
+    target_compile_options(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra
+                          -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function)
 endif()
 
 set_property(TARGET goqwen3ttscpp PROPERTY CXX_STANDARD 17)
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/Makefile b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/Makefile
index e35b1c133..e5f6a838f 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/Makefile
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/Makefile
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ GOCMD?=go
 GO_TAGS?=
 JOBS?=$(shell nproc --ignore=1)
 
-# qwen3-tts.cpp version
-QWEN3TTS_REPO?=https://github.com/predict-woo/qwen3-tts.cpp
-QWEN3TTS_CPP_VERSION?=136e5d36c17083da0321fd96512dc7b263f94a44
+# qwentts.cpp version
+QWEN3TTS_REPO?=https://github.com/ServeurpersoCom/qwentts.cpp
+QWEN3TTS_CPP_VERSION?=0bf4a18b22e8bb8718d95294e9f7f45c0d4270a4
 SO_TARGET?=libgoqwen3ttscpp.so
 
 CMAKE_ARGS+=-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f32)
 		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx
 endif
 
-sources/qwen3-tts.cpp:
-	mkdir -p sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
-	cd sources/qwen3-tts.cpp && \
+sources/qwentts.cpp:
+	mkdir -p sources/qwentts.cpp
+	cd sources/qwentts.cpp && \
 	git init && \
 	git remote add origin $(QWEN3TTS_REPO) && \
 	git fetch origin && \
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ package: qwen3-tts-cpp
 build: package
 
 clean: purge
-	rm -rf libgoqwen3ttscpp*.so package sources/qwen3-tts.cpp qwen3-tts-cpp
+	rm -rf libgoqwen3ttscpp*.so package sources/qwentts.cpp qwen3-tts-cpp
 
 purge:
 	rm -rf build*
@@ -88,24 +88,24 @@ purge:
 
 # Build all variants (Linux only)
 ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so: sources/qwentts.cpp
 	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:avx${RESET})
 	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
 	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so
 
-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so: sources/qwentts.cpp
 	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:avx2${RESET})
 	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on -DGGML_BMI2=on" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
 	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so
 
-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so: sources/qwentts.cpp
 	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:avx512${RESET})
 	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=on -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on -DGGML_BMI2=on" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
 	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so
 endif
 
 # Build fallback variant (all platforms)
-libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so: sources/qwentts.cpp
 	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:fallback${RESET})
 	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
 	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/audio.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/audio.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0aa13964e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/audio.go
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"runtime"
+
+	"github.com/go-audio/audio"
+	"github.com/go-audio/wav"
+)
+
+const qwen3ttsSampleRate = 24000
+
+// wavHeader24k returns a 44-byte WAV header for a streaming 24 kHz mono 16-bit
+// PCM stream, with placeholder (0xFFFFFFFF) sizes since the total length is
+// unknown up front. Emitted as the first chunk of TTSStream so the HTTP layer
+// receives a self-describing WAV (the gRPC TTSStream path never sets Message,
+// so the backend owns the header - see core/backend/tts.go:ModelTTSStream).
+func wavHeader24k() []byte {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	w := func(v any) { _ = binary.Write(&buf, binary.LittleEndian, v) }
+	buf.WriteString("RIFF")
+	w(uint32(0xFFFFFFFF))
+	buf.WriteString("WAVE")
+	buf.WriteString("fmt ")
+	w(uint32(16))                     // Subchunk1Size
+	w(uint16(1))                      // PCM
+	w(uint16(1))                      // mono
+	w(uint32(qwen3ttsSampleRate))     // sample rate
+	w(uint32(qwen3ttsSampleRate * 2)) // byte rate = SR * blockAlign
+	w(uint16(2))                      // block align (16-bit mono)
+	w(uint16(16))                     // bits per sample
+	buf.WriteString("data")
+	w(uint32(0xFFFFFFFF))
+	return buf.Bytes()
+}
+
+// floatToPCM16LE clamps each sample to [-1,1] and encodes it as little-endian
+// signed 16-bit PCM.
+func floatToPCM16LE(samples []float32) []byte {
+	out := make([]byte, len(samples)*2)
+	for i, s := range samples {
+		if s > 1 {
+			s = 1
+		} else if s < -1 {
+			s = -1
+		}
+		v := int16(s * 32767)
+		out[i*2] = byte(v)
+		out[i*2+1] = byte(v >> 8)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// writeWAV24k writes samples as a finalized 24 kHz mono 16-bit WAV at dst.
+func writeWAV24k(dst string, samples []float32) error {
+	f, err := os.Create(dst)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: create %q: %w", dst, err)
+	}
+	enc := wav.NewEncoder(f, qwen3ttsSampleRate, 16, 1, 1)
+	ints := make([]int, len(samples))
+	for i, s := range samples {
+		if s > 1 {
+			s = 1
+		} else if s < -1 {
+			s = -1
+		}
+		ints[i] = int(s * 32767)
+	}
+	b := &audio.IntBuffer{
+		Format:         &audio.Format{NumChannels: 1, SampleRate: qwen3ttsSampleRate},
+		Data:           ints,
+		SourceBitDepth: 16,
+	}
+	if err := enc.Write(b); err != nil {
+		_ = enc.Close()
+		_ = f.Close()
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: encode WAV: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := enc.Close(); err != nil {
+		_ = f.Close()
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: finalize WAV: %w", err)
+	}
+	return f.Close()
+}
+
+// readWAVAsFloat decodes a WAV file (any sample rate/channels) to a mono
+// float32 slice in [-1,1] for use as cloning reference audio. qwentts expects
+// 24 kHz; callers should supply 24 kHz reference clips.
+func readWAVAsFloat(path string) ([]float32, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: open ref %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+
+	dec := wav.NewDecoder(f)
+	buf, err := dec.FullPCMBuffer()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: decode ref %q: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	ch := int(buf.Format.NumChannels)
+	if ch < 1 {
+		ch = 1
+	}
+	bitDepth := int(buf.SourceBitDepth)
+	if bitDepth == 0 {
+		bitDepth = 16
+	}
+	scale := float32(int64(1) << uint(bitDepth-1))
+	n := len(buf.Data) / ch
+	out := make([]float32, n)
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		var acc int
+		for c := 0; c < ch; c++ {
+			acc += buf.Data[i*ch+c]
+		}
+		out[i] = float32(acc) / float32(ch) / scale
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// runtimeKeepAlive prevents the GC from reclaiming the reference-audio slice
+// while its backing pointer is in use across the C call.
+func runtimeKeepAlive(v any) { runtime.KeepAlive(v) }
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/audiopath_test.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/audiopath_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aae1b1aff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/audiopath_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
+)
+
+// These specs pin the voice-selection logic in resolveRequest, in particular
+// the config-level audio_path (tts.audio_path -> ModelOptions.AudioPath) being
+// used as the default voice-cloning reference. No model/C library is needed:
+// resolveRequest only reads the reference WAV via readWAVAsFloat (pure Go).
+var _ = Describe("resolveRequest voice/clone selection", func() {
+	var dir, refWav string
+
+	BeforeEach(func() {
+		dir = GinkgoT().TempDir()
+		refWav = filepath.Join(dir, "ref.wav")
+		// 0.5s of non-silent 24kHz mono audio as a clone reference.
+		samples := make([]float32, qwen3ttsSampleRate/2)
+		for i := range samples {
+			samples[i] = 0.1
+		}
+		Expect(writeWAV24k(refWav, samples)).To(Succeed())
+	})
+
+	It("uses the config audio_path as the clone reference when Voice is empty", func() {
+		q := &Qwen3TtsCpp{audioPath: refWav}
+		_, _, speaker, _, ref, _, err := q.resolveRequest(&pb.TTSRequest{Text: "hi"})
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(speaker).To(BeEmpty())
+		Expect(len(ref)).To(Equal(qwen3ttsSampleRate / 2))
+	})
+
+	It("lets a per-request audio Voice override audio_path", func() {
+		other := filepath.Join(dir, "other.wav")
+		Expect(writeWAV24k(other, make([]float32, 100))).To(Succeed())
+		q := &Qwen3TtsCpp{audioPath: refWav}
+		_, _, speaker, _, ref, _, err := q.resolveRequest(&pb.TTSRequest{Text: "hi", Voice: other})
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(speaker).To(BeEmpty())
+		Expect(len(ref)).To(Equal(100))
+	})
+
+	It("does not trigger audio_path cloning for a named-speaker Voice", func() {
+		q := &Qwen3TtsCpp{audioPath: refWav}
+		_, _, speaker, _, ref, _, err := q.resolveRequest(&pb.TTSRequest{Text: "hi", Voice: "serena"})
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(speaker).To(Equal("serena"))
+		Expect(ref).To(BeNil())
+	})
+})
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp
index b2de53620..0cd62293d 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp
@@ -1,161 +1,191 @@
 #include "goqwen3ttscpp.h"
 #include "ggml-backend.h"
-#include "qwen3_tts.h"
+#include "qwen.h"
 
-#include <cmath>
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <cstring>
-#include <string>
 
-using namespace qwen3_tts;
+static qt_context *g_ctx = nullptr;
 
-// Global engine (loaded once, reused across requests)
-static Qwen3TTS *g_engine = nullptr;
-static bool g_loaded = false;
-static int g_threads = 4;
-
-static void ggml_log_cb(enum ggml_log_level level, const char *log, void *data) {
-    const char *level_str;
+static void ggml_log_cb(enum ggml_log_level level, const char *log,
+                        void * /*data*/) {
     if (!log)
         return;
+    const char *lvl = "?????";
     switch (level) {
-    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG:
-        level_str = "DEBUG";
-        break;
-    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO:
-        level_str = "INFO";
-        break;
-    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_WARN:
-        level_str = "WARN";
-        break;
-    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR:
-        level_str = "ERROR";
-        break;
-    default:
-        level_str = "?????";
-        break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG: lvl = "DEBUG"; break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO:  lvl = "INFO";  break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_WARN:  lvl = "WARN";  break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR: lvl = "ERROR"; break;
+    default: break;
     }
-    fprintf(stderr, "[%-5s] ", level_str);
-    fputs(log, stderr);
+    fprintf(stderr, "[%-5s] %s", lvl, log);
     fflush(stderr);
 }
 
-// Map language string to language_id token used by the model
-static int language_to_id(const char *lang) {
-    if (!lang || lang[0] == '\0')
-        return 2050; // default: English
-    std::string l(lang);
-    if (l == "en")
-        return 2050;
-    if (l == "ru")
-        return 2069;
-    if (l == "zh")
-        return 2055;
-    if (l == "ja")
-        return 2058;
-    if (l == "ko")
-        return 2064;
-    if (l == "de")
-        return 2053;
-    if (l == "fr")
-        return 2061;
-    if (l == "es")
-        return 2054;
-    if (l == "it")
-        return 2056;
-    if (l == "pt")
-        return 2057;
-    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Unknown language '%s', defaulting to English\n",
-            lang);
-    return 2050;
-}
-
-int load_model(const char *model_dir, int n_threads) {
+int qt3_load(const char *talker_path, const char *codec_path, int use_fa,
+             int clamp_fp16) {
     ggml_log_set(ggml_log_cb, nullptr);
     ggml_backend_load_all();
 
-    if (n_threads <= 0)
-        n_threads = 4;
-    g_threads = n_threads;
-
-    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Loading models from %s (threads=%d)\n",
-            model_dir, n_threads);
-
-    g_engine = new Qwen3TTS();
-    if (!g_engine->load_models(model_dir)) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] FATAL: failed to load models from %s\n",
-                model_dir);
-        delete g_engine;
-        g_engine = nullptr;
+    if (!talker_path || talker_path[0] == '\0') {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: talker_path is required\n");
         return 1;
     }
-
-    g_loaded = true;
-    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Models loaded successfully\n");
-    return 0;
-}
-
-int synthesize(const char *text, const char *ref_audio_path, const char *dst,
-               const char *language, float temperature, float top_p,
-               int top_k, float repetition_penalty, int max_audio_tokens,
-               int n_threads) {
-    if (!g_loaded || !g_engine) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: models not loaded\n");
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    if (!text || !dst) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: text and dst are required\n");
+    if (!codec_path || codec_path[0] == '\0') {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: codec_path is required\n");
         return 2;
     }
 
-    tts_params params;
-    params.max_audio_tokens = max_audio_tokens > 0 ? max_audio_tokens : 4096;
-    params.temperature = temperature;
-    params.top_p = top_p;
-    params.top_k = top_k;
-    params.repetition_penalty = repetition_penalty;
-    params.n_threads = n_threads > 0 ? n_threads : g_threads;
-    params.language_id = language_to_id(language);
+    qt_init_params p;
+    qt_init_default_params(&p);
+    p.talker_path = talker_path;
+    p.codec_path = codec_path;
+    p.use_fa = use_fa != 0;
+    p.clamp_fp16 = clamp_fp16 != 0;
 
-    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Synthesizing: text='%.50s%s', lang_id=%d, "
-                    "temp=%.2f, threads=%d\n",
-            text, (strlen(text) > 50 ? "..." : ""), params.language_id,
-            temperature, params.n_threads);
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Loading talker=%s codec=%s\n", talker_path,
+            codec_path);
 
-    tts_result result;
-    bool has_ref = ref_audio_path && ref_audio_path[0] != '\0';
-
-    if (has_ref) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Voice cloning with ref: %s\n",
-                ref_audio_path);
-        result = g_engine->synthesize_with_voice(text, ref_audio_path, params);
-    } else {
-        result = g_engine->synthesize(text, params);
-    }
-
-    if (!result.success) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: synthesis failed: %s\n",
-                result.error_msg.c_str());
+    g_ctx = qt_init(&p);
+    if (!g_ctx) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] FATAL: qt_init failed: %s\n",
+                qt_last_error());
         return 3;
     }
-
-    int n_samples = (int)result.audio.size();
-    if (n_samples == 0) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: synthesis produced no samples\n");
-        return 4;
-    }
-
-    fprintf(stderr,
-            "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Synthesis done: %d samples (%.2fs @ 24kHz)\n",
-            n_samples, (float)n_samples / 24000.0f);
-
-    if (!save_audio_file(dst, result.audio, result.sample_rate)) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: failed to write %s\n", dst);
-        return 5;
-    }
-
-    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Wrote %s\n", dst);
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Model loaded (%s)\n", qt_version());
     return 0;
 }
+
+// Fill a qt_tts_params from the flat wrapper arguments. Unset/zero scalars keep
+// the qt defaults (temperature 0.9, top_k 50, top_p 1.0, rep 1.05, max 2048).
+static void fill_params(qt_tts_params *tp, const char *text, const char *lang,
+                        const char *instruct, const char *speaker,
+                        const float *ref_samples, int ref_n,
+                        const char *ref_text, long long seed, float temperature,
+                        int top_k, float top_p, float repetition_penalty,
+                        int max_new_tokens) {
+    qt_tts_default_params(tp);
+    tp->text = text ? text : "";
+    if (lang && lang[0] != '\0')
+        tp->lang = lang; // else keep default NULL -> auto
+    if (instruct && instruct[0] != '\0')
+        tp->instruct = instruct;
+    if (speaker && speaker[0] != '\0')
+        tp->speaker = speaker;
+    if (ref_samples && ref_n > 0) {
+        tp->ref_audio_24k = ref_samples;
+        tp->ref_n_samples = ref_n;
+        if (ref_text && ref_text[0] != '\0')
+            tp->ref_text = ref_text;
+    }
+    if (seed >= 0)
+        tp->seed = (int64_t)seed; // else default -1 (random)
+    if (temperature > 0.0f)
+        tp->temperature = temperature;
+    if (top_k > 0)
+        tp->top_k = top_k;
+    if (top_p > 0.0f)
+        tp->top_p = top_p;
+    if (repetition_penalty > 0.0f)
+        tp->repetition_penalty = repetition_penalty;
+    if (max_new_tokens > 0)
+        tp->max_new_tokens = max_new_tokens;
+}
+
+float *qt3_tts(const char *text, const char *lang, const char *instruct,
+               const char *speaker, const float *ref_samples, int ref_n,
+               const char *ref_text, long long seed, float temperature,
+               int top_k, float top_p, float repetition_penalty,
+               int max_new_tokens, int *out_n) {
+    if (out_n)
+        *out_n = 0;
+    if (!g_ctx) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: model not loaded\n");
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    if (!text || text[0] == '\0') {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: text is required\n");
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    qt_tts_params tp;
+    fill_params(&tp, text, lang, instruct, speaker, ref_samples, ref_n,
+                ref_text, seed, temperature, top_k, top_p, repetition_penalty,
+                max_new_tokens);
+
+    qt_audio out = {0};
+    enum qt_status rc = qt_synthesize(g_ctx, &tp, &out);
+    if (rc != QT_STATUS_OK || out.n_samples <= 0 || !out.samples) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: synthesize failed (rc=%d): %s\n",
+                (int)rc, qt_last_error());
+        qt_audio_free(&out);
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+
+    // Copy into a plain malloc buffer the Go side frees via qt3_pcm_free.
+    size_t bytes = (size_t)out.n_samples * sizeof(float);
+    float *buf = (float *)malloc(bytes);
+    if (!buf) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: malloc(%zu) failed\n", bytes);
+        qt_audio_free(&out);
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    memcpy(buf, out.samples, bytes);
+    if (out_n)
+        *out_n = out.n_samples;
+    qt_audio_free(&out);
+    return buf;
+}
+
+int qt3_tts_stream(const char *text, const char *lang, const char *instruct,
+                   const char *speaker, const float *ref_samples, int ref_n,
+                   const char *ref_text, long long seed, float temperature,
+                   int top_k, float top_p, float repetition_penalty,
+                   int max_new_tokens, qt3_chunk_cb cb, void *user_data) {
+    if (!g_ctx) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: model not loaded\n");
+        return 1;
+    }
+    if (!cb) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: stream callback is null\n");
+        return 2;
+    }
+    if (!text || text[0] == '\0') {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: text is required\n");
+        return 4;
+    }
+    qt_tts_params tp;
+    fill_params(&tp, text, lang, instruct, speaker, ref_samples, ref_n,
+                ref_text, seed, temperature, top_k, top_p, repetition_penalty,
+                max_new_tokens);
+    // qt_audio_chunk_cb has the identical signature to qt3_chunk_cb
+    // (bool vs int return are ABI-compatible; non-zero == true).
+    tp.on_chunk = (qt_audio_chunk_cb)cb;
+    tp.on_chunk_user_data = user_data;
+
+    qt_audio out = {0}; // stays empty in streaming mode
+    enum qt_status rc = qt_synthesize(g_ctx, &tp, &out);
+    qt_audio_free(&out);
+    if (rc != QT_STATUS_OK && rc != QT_STATUS_CANCELLED) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: stream synth failed (rc=%d): %s\n",
+                (int)rc, qt_last_error());
+        return 3;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void qt3_pcm_free(float *p) { free(p); }
+
+void qt3_unload(void) {
+    if (g_ctx) {
+        qt_free(g_ctx);
+        g_ctx = nullptr;
+    }
+}
+
+int qt3_n_speakers(void) { return g_ctx ? qt_n_speakers(g_ctx) : 0; }
+
+const char *qt3_speaker_name(int i) {
+    return g_ctx ? qt_speaker_name(g_ctx, i) : nullptr;
+}
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.h b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.h
index 51b1c216d..5e7dd4823 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.h
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.h
@@ -1,12 +1,47 @@
 #pragma once
 
-#include <cstddef>
-#include <cstdint>
-
 extern "C" {
-int load_model(const char *model_dir, int n_threads);
-int synthesize(const char *text, const char *ref_audio_path, const char *dst,
-               const char *language, float temperature, float top_p,
-               int top_k, float repetition_penalty, int max_audio_tokens,
-               int n_threads);
+
+// Streaming PCM chunk callback. samples is mono float PCM at 24 kHz, valid
+// only for the duration of the call. Return non-zero to continue, 0 to abort.
+typedef int (*qt3_chunk_cb)(const float *samples, int n_samples,
+                            void *user_data);
+
+// Load the talker + codec/tokenizer GGUFs. use_fa / clamp_fp16 map to
+// qt_init_params (the qt ABI exposes no thread count; ggml uses its own
+// default). Returns 0 on success, non-zero on failure.
+int qt3_load(const char *talker_path, const char *codec_path, int use_fa,
+             int clamp_fp16);
+
+// Synthesize to a malloc'd float PCM buffer (caller frees via qt3_pcm_free).
+// The synthesis mode (base / custom_voice / voice_design) is auto-detected by
+// qt from the talker GGUF; speaker is honoured only for custom_voice, instruct
+// for voice_design / custom_voice, and ref_samples (+ optional ref_text) drive
+// base-mode cloning. qt enforces the rules and we surface qt_last_error() on
+// QT_STATUS_MODE_INVALID. Writes the sample count to *out_n. Returns NULL on
+// failure (out_n set to 0).
+float *qt3_tts(const char *text, const char *lang, const char *instruct,
+               const char *speaker, const float *ref_samples, int ref_n,
+               const char *ref_text, long long seed, float temperature,
+               int top_k, float top_p, float repetition_penalty,
+               int max_new_tokens, int *out_n);
+
+// Streaming synthesis: cb is invoked per PCM chunk as audio is produced. Same
+// param semantics as qt3_tts. Returns 0 on success.
+int qt3_tts_stream(const char *text, const char *lang, const char *instruct,
+                   const char *speaker, const float *ref_samples, int ref_n,
+                   const char *ref_text, long long seed, float temperature,
+                   int top_k, float top_p, float repetition_penalty,
+                   int max_new_tokens, qt3_chunk_cb cb, void *user_data);
+
+// Free a buffer returned by qt3_tts.
+void qt3_pcm_free(float *p);
+
+// Release the qt context.
+void qt3_unload(void);
+
+// Named-speaker introspection (custom_voice models). Returns 0 / NULL when no
+// model is loaded or the index is out of range.
+int qt3_n_speakers(void);
+const char *qt3_speaker_name(int i);
 }
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/e2e_test.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/e2e_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eea64d18c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/e2e_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"math"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/ebitengine/purego"
+	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
+)
+
+func ttsReq(text, voice string, lang *string, dst string) *pb.TTSRequest {
+	return &pb.TTSRequest{Text: text, Voice: voice, Language: lang, Dst: dst}
+}
+
+var _ = Describe("qwen3-tts-cpp e2e", Label("e2e"), func() {
+	var loaded bool
+
+	BeforeEach(func() {
+		modelPath := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_MODEL")
+		codecPath := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_CODEC")
+		if modelPath == "" || codecPath == "" {
+			Skip("QWEN3TTS_MODEL / QWEN3TTS_CODEC not set; skipping e2e")
+		}
+		if !loaded {
+			lib := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_LIBRARY")
+			if lib == "" {
+				lib = "./libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so"
+			}
+			h, err := purego.Dlopen(lib, purego.RTLD_NOW|purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)
+			Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+			purego.RegisterLibFunc(&CppLoad, h, "qt3_load")
+			purego.RegisterLibFunc(&CppTTS, h, "qt3_tts")
+			purego.RegisterLibFunc(&CppTTSStream, h, "qt3_tts_stream")
+			purego.RegisterLibFunc(&CppPCMFree, h, "qt3_pcm_free")
+			purego.RegisterLibFunc(&CppUnload, h, "qt3_unload")
+			Expect(CppLoad(modelPath, codecPath, 1, 0)).To(Equal(0))
+			loaded = true
+		}
+	})
+
+	It("synthesizes a WAV file via TTS", func() {
+		b := &Qwen3TtsCpp{opts: loadOptions{seed: 42, useFA: true}}
+		dst := GinkgoT().TempDir() + "/out.wav"
+		lang := "english"
+		err := b.TTS(ttsReq("Hello world.", "", &lang, dst))
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		fi, err := os.Stat(dst)
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(fi.Size()).To(BeNumerically(">", int64(44)))
+	})
+
+	It("streams audio chunks via TTSStream", func() {
+		b := &Qwen3TtsCpp{opts: loadOptions{seed: 42, useFA: true}}
+		results := make(chan []byte, 1024)
+		lang := "english"
+		done := make(chan error, 1)
+		go func() { done <- b.TTSStream(ttsReq("Hello there, streaming test.", "", &lang, ""), results) }()
+
+		var chunks int
+		var first []byte
+		for c := range results {
+			if chunks == 0 {
+				first = c
+			}
+			chunks++
+		}
+		Expect(<-done).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(chunks).To(BeNumerically(">=", 2))
+		Expect(string(first[0:4])).To(Equal("RIFF"))
+		Expect(strings.HasPrefix(string(first[8:12]), "WAVE")).To(BeTrue())
+	})
+
+	It("clones a voice from the config audio_path reference", func() {
+		// 1s of 24kHz mono audio as a clone reference; the base model carries
+		// a speaker encoder, so audio_path drives x-vector voice cloning.
+		ref := GinkgoT().TempDir() + "/ref.wav"
+		samples := make([]float32, qwen3ttsSampleRate)
+		for i := range samples {
+			samples[i] = float32(0.05 * math.Sin(float64(i)*0.06))
+		}
+		Expect(writeWAV24k(ref, samples)).To(Succeed())
+
+		b := &Qwen3TtsCpp{opts: loadOptions{seed: 42, useFA: true}, audioPath: ref}
+		dst := GinkgoT().TempDir() + "/clone.wav"
+		lang := "english"
+		// Empty Voice -> the config audio_path is used as the clone reference.
+		Expect(b.TTS(ttsReq("Cloned voice test.", "", &lang, dst))).To(Succeed())
+		fi, err := os.Stat(dst)
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(fi.Size()).To(BeNumerically(">", int64(44)))
+	})
+})
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.go
index d34c2b746..e8b3b0feb 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.go
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.go
@@ -5,108 +5,225 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"unsafe"
 
+	"github.com/ebitengine/purego"
 	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
 	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
 )
 
 var (
-	CppLoadModel  func(modelDir string, nThreads int) int
-	CppSynthesize func(text, refAudioPath, dst, language string,
-		temperature, topP float32, topK int,
-		repetitionPenalty float32, maxAudioTokens, nThreads int) int
+	// qt3_load(talker_path, codec_path, use_fa, clamp_fp16) int
+	CppLoad func(talkerPath, codecPath string, useFA, clampFP16 int) int
+	// qt3_tts(text, lang, instruct, speaker, ref_samples, ref_n, ref_text,
+	//         seed, temperature, top_k, top_p, rep_pen, max_new, out_n) -> float*
+	CppTTS func(text, lang, instruct, speaker string, refSamples unsafe.Pointer,
+		refN int, refText string, seed int64, temperature float32, topK int,
+		topP, repPen float32, maxNew int, outN unsafe.Pointer) uintptr
+	// qt3_tts_stream(..., cb, user) int
+	CppTTSStream func(text, lang, instruct, speaker string, refSamples unsafe.Pointer,
+		refN int, refText string, seed int64, temperature float32, topK int,
+		topP, repPen float32, maxNew int, cb uintptr, user uintptr) int
+	CppPCMFree func(ptr uintptr)
+	CppUnload  func()
 )
 
 type Qwen3TtsCpp struct {
 	base.SingleThread
-	threads int
-}
-
-// languageNameAliases maps common full language names to the canonical
-// two-letter code understood by the C++ language_to_id table.
-var languageNameAliases = map[string]string{
-	"english":    "en",
-	"russian":    "ru",
-	"chinese":    "zh",
-	"japanese":   "ja",
-	"korean":     "ko",
-	"german":     "de",
-	"french":     "fr",
-	"spanish":    "es",
-	"italian":    "it",
-	"portuguese": "pt",
-}
-
-// normalizeLanguage coerces a caller-supplied language into the canonical code
-// the model expects. It lowercases, trims, strips any region/locale suffix
-// (en-US, en_US, ja.JP -> en/ja), and resolves common full names (english -> en).
-// An empty input stays empty so the C++ side applies its English default; an
-// unrecognized value is returned normalized so C++ can log it and default.
-func normalizeLanguage(lang string) string {
-	lang = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(lang))
-	if lang == "" {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	// Strip region/locale suffix: keep the segment before the first separator.
-	if i := strings.IndexAny(lang, "-_."); i >= 0 {
-		lang = lang[:i]
-	}
-
-	if code, ok := languageNameAliases[lang]; ok {
-		return code
-	}
-	return lang
+	opts loadOptions
+	// audioPath is the model-config reference voice (tts.audio_path), the
+	// default clone reference when a request omits an audio Voice.
+	audioPath string
 }
 
 func (q *Qwen3TtsCpp) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
-	// ModelFile is the model directory path (containing GGUF files)
-	modelDir := opts.ModelFile
-	if modelDir == "" {
-		modelDir = opts.ModelPath
+	model := opts.ModelFile
+	if model == "" {
+		model = opts.ModelPath
+	}
+	if !filepath.IsAbs(model) && opts.ModelPath != "" {
+		model = filepath.Join(opts.ModelPath, model)
 	}
 
-	// Resolve relative paths
-	if !filepath.IsAbs(modelDir) && opts.ModelPath != "" {
-		modelDir = filepath.Join(opts.ModelPath, modelDir)
+	q.opts = parseOptions(opts.Options)
+
+	// Resolve the codec/tokenizer GGUF: explicit option, else auto-discover a
+	// *tokenizer*.gguf sibling of the talker model.
+	codec := q.opts.codecPath
+	if codec != "" && !filepath.IsAbs(codec) {
+		codec = filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(model), codec)
+	}
+	if codec == "" {
+		codec = discoverTokenizer(filepath.Dir(model))
+	}
+	if codec == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: no codec/tokenizer GGUF found; set option 'tokenizer:<file>'")
+	}
+	q.opts.codecPath = codec
+
+	q.audioPath = opts.AudioPath
+	if q.audioPath != "" && !filepath.IsAbs(q.audioPath) {
+		q.audioPath = filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(model), q.audioPath)
 	}
 
-	threads := int(opts.Threads)
-	if threads <= 0 {
-		threads = 4
+	useFA := boolToInt(q.opts.useFA)
+	clamp := boolToInt(q.opts.clampFP16)
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Load talker=%s codec=%s use_fa=%d clamp_fp16=%d\n",
+		model, codec, useFA, clamp)
+
+	if rc := CppLoad(model, codec, useFA, clamp); rc != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: failed to load model (rc=%d)", rc)
 	}
-	q.threads = threads
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Loading models from: %s (threads=%d)\n", modelDir, threads)
-
-	if ret := CppLoadModel(modelDir, threads); ret != 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to load qwen3-tts model (error code: %d)", ret)
-	}
-
 	return nil
 }
 
+// discoverTokenizer returns the first *tokenizer*.gguf in dir, or "".
+func discoverTokenizer(dir string) string {
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		name := strings.ToLower(e.Name())
+		if strings.Contains(name, "tokenizer") && strings.HasSuffix(name, ".gguf") {
+			return filepath.Join(dir, e.Name())
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func boolToInt(b bool) int {
+	if b {
+		return 1
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func optStr(p *string) string {
+	if p == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return *p
+}
+
+// resolveRequest derives the synthesis inputs from a TTSRequest:
+// language, instruct, speaker, ref-audio samples, ref-text and sampling.
+func (q *Qwen3TtsCpp) resolveRequest(req *pb.TTSRequest) (lang, instruct, speaker, refText string, ref []float32, s sampling, err error) {
+	lang = normalizeLanguage(optStr(req.Language))
+	instruct = optStr(req.Instructions)
+
+	var refPath string
+	speaker, refPath = resolveVoice(req.Voice)
+	if refPath == "" && speaker == "" && q.audioPath != "" {
+		// No per-request voice: fall back to the config clone reference.
+		refPath = q.audioPath
+	}
+	if refPath != "" {
+		ref, err = readWAVAsFloat(refPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	if req.Params != nil {
+		refText = req.Params["ref_text"]
+	}
+	s = parseSampling(req.Params, q.opts.seed)
+	return
+}
+
 func (q *Qwen3TtsCpp) TTS(req *pb.TTSRequest) error {
-	text := req.Text
-	voice := req.Voice // reference audio path for voice cloning (empty = no cloning)
-	dst := req.Dst
-	language := ""
-	if req.Language != nil {
-		language = normalizeLanguage(*req.Language)
+	if req.Dst == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: TTS requires a destination path")
+	}
+	if req.Text == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: TTS requires text")
+	}
+	lang, instruct, speaker, refText, ref, s, err := q.resolveRequest(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var refPtr unsafe.Pointer
+	if len(ref) > 0 {
+		refPtr = unsafe.Pointer(&ref[0])
 	}
 
-	// Synthesis parameters with sensible defaults
-	temperature := float32(0.9)
-	topP := float32(0.8)
-	topK := 50
-	repetitionPenalty := float32(1.05)
-	maxAudioTokens := 4096
+	var n int32
+	ptr := CppTTS(req.Text, lang, instruct, speaker, refPtr, len(ref), refText,
+		s.seed, s.temperature, s.topK, s.topP, s.repPen, s.maxNew, unsafe.Pointer(&n))
+	runtimeKeepAlive(ref)
+	if ptr == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: synthesis failed")
+	}
+	// Register the free as soon as we own a non-null buffer, so the n<=0 guard
+	// below cannot leak it (defensive: the C contract returns NULL on failure).
+	defer CppPCMFree(ptr)
+	if n <= 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: synthesis produced no samples")
+	}
+	src := unsafe.Slice((*float32)(unsafe.Pointer(ptr)), int(n)) //nolint:govet // C-allocated PCM, copied out before free
+	out := make([]float32, int(n))
+	copy(out, src)
+	return writeWAV24k(req.Dst, out)
+}
 
-	if ret := CppSynthesize(text, voice, dst, language,
-		temperature, topP, topK, repetitionPenalty,
-		maxAudioTokens, q.threads); ret != 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to synthesize audio (error code: %d)", ret)
+// streamState carries the active TTSStream channel to the single shared C
+// callback. base.SingleThread serializes TTS/TTSStream, so one global slot is
+// safe and avoids leaking a purego callback per request (purego callbacks
+// cannot be freed and are capped).
+var (
+	streamMu     sync.Mutex
+	streamChan   chan []byte
+	streamCbOnce sync.Once
+	streamCbPtr  uintptr
+)
+
+// streamCallback is registered once and forwards each PCM chunk to streamChan.
+func streamCallback(samples *float32, nSamples int32, _ uintptr) uintptr {
+	if nSamples <= 0 || samples == nil || streamChan == nil {
+		return 1 // continue
+	}
+	src := unsafe.Slice(samples, int(nSamples))
+	cp := make([]float32, int(nSamples)) // copy out of C memory before returning
+	copy(cp, src)
+	streamChan <- floatToPCM16LE(cp)
+	return 1 // continue
+}
+
+func (q *Qwen3TtsCpp) TTSStream(req *pb.TTSRequest, results chan []byte) error {
+	defer close(results)
+	if req.Text == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: TTSStream requires text")
 	}
 
+	streamCbOnce.Do(func() {
+		streamCbPtr = purego.NewCallback(streamCallback)
+	})
+
+	lang, instruct, speaker, refText, ref, s, err := q.resolveRequest(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var refPtr unsafe.Pointer
+	if len(ref) > 0 {
+		refPtr = unsafe.Pointer(&ref[0])
+	}
+
+	// Emit the WAV header first so the HTTP layer gets a self-describing stream.
+	results <- wavHeader24k()
+
+	streamMu.Lock()
+	streamChan = results
+	rc := CppTTSStream(req.Text, lang, instruct, speaker, refPtr, len(ref), refText,
+		s.seed, s.temperature, s.topK, s.topP, s.repPen, s.maxNew, streamCbPtr, 0)
+	streamChan = nil
+	streamMu.Unlock()
+	runtimeKeepAlive(ref)
+
+	if rc != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("qwen3-tts: streaming synthesis failed (rc=%d)", rc)
+	}
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/language_test.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/language_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c3526669..000000000
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/language_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
-	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
-)
-
-func TestLanguageNormalization(t *testing.T) {
-	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
-	RunSpecs(t, "qwen3-tts-cpp language normalization")
-}
-
-var _ = Describe("normalizeLanguage", func() {
-	DescribeTable("maps caller input to the canonical model language code",
-		func(input, expected string) {
-			Expect(normalizeLanguage(input)).To(Equal(expected))
-		},
-		// Canonical codes pass through unchanged
-		Entry("canonical en", "en", "en"),
-		Entry("canonical zh", "zh", "zh"),
-		Entry("canonical pt", "pt", "pt"),
-
-		// Case-insensitive
-		Entry("uppercase", "EN", "en"),
-		Entry("mixed case", "Ja", "ja"),
-
-		// Surrounding whitespace
-		Entry("trims whitespace", "  en  ", "en"),
-
-		// Region/locale stripping
-		Entry("BCP-47 region", "en-US", "en"),
-		Entry("underscore region", "en_US", "en"),
-		Entry("dotted locale", "ja.JP", "ja"),
-		Entry("region + case", "ZH-CN", "zh"),
-
-		// Full-name aliases
-		Entry("english name", "english", "en"),
-		Entry("chinese name cased", "Chinese", "zh"),
-		Entry("japanese name", "japanese", "ja"),
-		Entry("russian name", "russian", "ru"),
-		Entry("portuguese name", "portuguese", "pt"),
-
-		// Empty stays empty (C++ applies the English default)
-		Entry("empty", "", ""),
-		Entry("whitespace only", "   ", ""),
-
-		// Unknown values pass through normalized so C++ can log + default
-		Entry("unknown code", "klingon", "klingon"),
-		Entry("unknown with region", "xx-YY", "xx"),
-	)
-})
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/main.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/main.go
index d10239ccc..b788229cd 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/main.go
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/main.go
@@ -19,24 +19,25 @@ type LibFuncs struct {
 }
 
 func main() {
-	// Get library name from environment variable, default to fallback
 	libName := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_LIBRARY")
 	if libName == "" {
 		libName = "./libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so"
 	}
 
-	gosd, err := purego.Dlopen(libName, purego.RTLD_NOW|purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)
+	lib, err := purego.Dlopen(libName, purego.RTLD_NOW|purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
 
 	libFuncs := []LibFuncs{
-		{&CppLoadModel, "load_model"},
-		{&CppSynthesize, "synthesize"},
+		{&CppLoad, "qt3_load"},
+		{&CppTTS, "qt3_tts"},
+		{&CppTTSStream, "qt3_tts_stream"},
+		{&CppPCMFree, "qt3_pcm_free"},
+		{&CppUnload, "qt3_unload"},
 	}
-
 	for _, lf := range libFuncs {
-		purego.RegisterLibFunc(lf.FuncPtr, gosd, lf.Name)
+		purego.RegisterLibFunc(lf.FuncPtr, lib, lf.Name)
 	}
 
 	flag.Parse()
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/options.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/options.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67837db0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/options.go
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// loadOptions holds the parsed model-level options.
+type loadOptions struct {
+	codecPath string
+	useFA     bool
+	clampFP16 bool
+	seed      int64
+}
+
+// sampling holds per-request generation parameters with qt defaults applied.
+type sampling struct {
+	temperature float32
+	topK        int
+	topP        float32
+	repPen      float32
+	maxNew      int
+	seed        int64
+}
+
+func splitOption(o string) (key, value string, ok bool) {
+	i := strings.Index(o, ":")
+	if i < 0 {
+		return "", "", false
+	}
+	return strings.TrimSpace(o[:i]), strings.TrimSpace(o[i+1:]), true
+}
+
+func parseBool(v string) bool { return v == "true" || v == "1" }
+
+// parseOptions reads the backend "key:value" option slice. Unknown keys are
+// ignored. Defaults: use_fa true (qt default; CPU still uses the F32 chain),
+// seed -1 (engine random).
+func parseOptions(opts []string) loadOptions {
+	o := loadOptions{useFA: true, seed: -1}
+	for _, oo := range opts {
+		key, value, ok := splitOption(oo)
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		switch key {
+		case "tokenizer", "codec":
+			o.codecPath = value
+		case "use_fa":
+			o.useFA = parseBool(value)
+		case "clamp_fp16":
+			o.clampFP16 = parseBool(value)
+		case "seed":
+			if n, err := strconv.ParseInt(value, 10, 64); err == nil {
+				o.seed = n
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return o
+}
+
+// languageAliases maps codes / locales / full names to the upstream qwentts
+// language names. "auto" (and empty) map to "" so the engine auto-detects.
+var languageAliases = map[string]string{
+	"en": "english", "english": "english",
+	"zh": "chinese", "chinese": "chinese", "mandarin": "chinese",
+	"ja": "japanese", "japanese": "japanese",
+	"ko": "korean", "korean": "korean",
+	"de": "german", "german": "german",
+	"fr": "french", "french": "french",
+	"es": "spanish", "spanish": "spanish",
+	"it": "italian", "italian": "italian",
+	"pt": "portuguese", "portuguese": "portuguese",
+	"ru": "russian", "russian": "russian",
+	"auto": "",
+}
+
+// normalizeLanguage lowercases, trims, strips a region/locale suffix
+// (en-US -> en), and resolves to the qwentts language name. Empty stays empty
+// (engine auto-detects); an unknown value passes through normalized.
+func normalizeLanguage(lang string) string {
+	lang = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(lang))
+	if lang == "" {
+		return ""
+	}
+	if i := strings.IndexAny(lang, "-_."); i >= 0 {
+		lang = lang[:i]
+	}
+	if v, ok := languageAliases[lang]; ok {
+		return v
+	}
+	return lang
+}
+
+var refAudioExts = []string{".wav", ".flac", ".mp3", ".ogg", ".m4a"}
+
+// resolveVoice interprets the request Voice field: a value ending in a known
+// audio extension is a clone-reference path; anything else is a named speaker
+// (custom_voice). Empty input yields no speaker and no reference.
+func resolveVoice(voice string) (speaker, refPath string) {
+	v := strings.TrimSpace(voice)
+	if v == "" {
+		return "", ""
+	}
+	lower := strings.ToLower(v)
+	for _, ext := range refAudioExts {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(lower, ext) {
+			return "", v
+		}
+	}
+	return v, ""
+}
+
+func parseFloat32(v string, def float32) float32 {
+	if v == "" {
+		return def
+	}
+	f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(v, 32)
+	if err != nil {
+		return def
+	}
+	return float32(f)
+}
+
+func parseInt(v string, def int) int {
+	if v == "" {
+		return def
+	}
+	n, err := strconv.Atoi(v)
+	if err != nil {
+		return def
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+func parseInt64(v string, def int64) int64 {
+	if v == "" {
+		return def
+	}
+	n, err := strconv.ParseInt(v, 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return def
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// parseSampling reads per-request sampling params from the TTSRequest params
+// map, applying qt defaults (matching qt_tts_default_params).
+func parseSampling(params map[string]string, defaultSeed int64) sampling {
+	s := sampling{temperature: 0.9, topK: 50, topP: 1.0, repPen: 1.05, maxNew: 2048, seed: defaultSeed}
+	if params == nil {
+		return s
+	}
+	s.temperature = parseFloat32(params["temperature"], s.temperature)
+	s.topK = parseInt(params["top_k"], s.topK)
+	s.topP = parseFloat32(params["top_p"], s.topP)
+	s.repPen = parseFloat32(params["repetition_penalty"], s.repPen)
+	s.maxNew = parseInt(params["max_new_tokens"], s.maxNew)
+	s.seed = parseInt64(params["seed"], s.seed)
+	return s
+}
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3ttscpp_test.go b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3ttscpp_test.go
index 8e6b38610..5da2b01a0 100644
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3ttscpp_test.go
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3ttscpp_test.go
@@ -1,173 +1,136 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"context"
-	"os"
-	"os/exec"
-	"path/filepath"
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
 	"testing"
-	"time"
 
-	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
-	"google.golang.org/grpc"
-	"google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/insecure"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 )
 
-const (
-	testAddr    = "localhost:50051"
-	startupWait = 5 * time.Second
-)
-
-func skipIfNoModel(t *testing.T) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	modelDir := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR")
-	if modelDir == "" {
-		t.Skip("QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR not set, skipping test (set to directory with GGUF models)")
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(modelDir, "qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf")); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Skipf("TTS model file not found in %s, skipping", modelDir)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(modelDir, "qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf")); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Skipf("Tokenizer model file not found in %s, skipping", modelDir)
-	}
-	return modelDir
+func TestQwen3TtsCpp(t *testing.T) {
+	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
+	RunSpecs(t, "qwen3-tts-cpp suite")
 }
 
-func startServer(t *testing.T) *exec.Cmd {
-	t.Helper()
-	binary := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_BINARY")
-	if binary == "" {
-		binary = "./qwen3-tts-cpp"
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(binary); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Skipf("Backend binary not found at %s, skipping", binary)
-	}
-	cmd := exec.Command(binary, "--addr", testAddr)
-	cmd.Stdout = os.Stderr
-	cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Failed to start server: %v", err)
-	}
-	time.Sleep(startupWait)
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func stopServer(cmd *exec.Cmd) {
-	if cmd != nil && cmd.Process != nil {
-		cmd.Process.Kill()
-		cmd.Wait()
-	}
-}
-
-func dialGRPC(t *testing.T) *grpc.ClientConn {
-	t.Helper()
-	conn, err := grpc.Dial(testAddr,
-		grpc.WithTransportCredentials(insecure.NewCredentials()),
-		grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(
-			grpc.MaxCallRecvMsgSize(50*1024*1024),
-			grpc.MaxCallSendMsgSize(50*1024*1024),
-		),
+var _ = Describe("normalizeLanguage", func() {
+	DescribeTable("maps caller language to qwentts language names",
+		func(in, want string) {
+			Expect(normalizeLanguage(in)).To(Equal(want))
+		},
+		Entry("empty stays empty", "", ""),
+		Entry("auto maps to empty", "auto", ""),
+		Entry("english full name", "English", "english"),
+		Entry("english code", "en", "english"),
+		Entry("locale suffix stripped", "en-US", "english"),
+		Entry("underscore locale", "zh_CN", "chinese"),
+		Entry("mandarin alias", "mandarin", "chinese"),
+		Entry("japanese already full", "japanese", "japanese"),
+		Entry("unknown passes through normalized", "xx", "xx"),
 	)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Failed to dial gRPC: %v", err)
-	}
-	return conn
-}
+})
 
-func TestServerHealth(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := startServer(t)
-	defer stopServer(cmd)
-
-	conn := dialGRPC(t)
-	defer conn.Close()
-
-	client := pb.NewBackendClient(conn)
-	resp, err := client.Health(context.Background(), &pb.HealthMessage{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Health check failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	if string(resp.Message) != "OK" {
-		t.Fatalf("Expected OK, got %s", string(resp.Message))
-	}
-}
-
-func TestLoadModel(t *testing.T) {
-	modelDir := skipIfNoModel(t)
-	cmd := startServer(t)
-	defer stopServer(cmd)
-
-	conn := dialGRPC(t)
-	defer conn.Close()
-
-	client := pb.NewBackendClient(conn)
-
-	resp, err := client.LoadModel(context.Background(), &pb.ModelOptions{
-		ModelFile: modelDir,
-		Threads:   4,
+var _ = Describe("resolveVoice", func() {
+	It("treats a bare token as a named speaker", func() {
+		sp, ref := resolveVoice("serena")
+		Expect(sp).To(Equal("serena"))
+		Expect(ref).To(BeEmpty())
 	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("LoadModel failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !resp.Success {
-		t.Fatalf("LoadModel returned failure: %s", resp.Message)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTTS(t *testing.T) {
-	modelDir := skipIfNoModel(t)
-
-	tmpDir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "qwen3tts-test")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	t.Cleanup(func() { os.RemoveAll(tmpDir) })
-
-	outputFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "output.wav")
-
-	cmd := startServer(t)
-	defer stopServer(cmd)
-
-	conn := dialGRPC(t)
-	defer conn.Close()
-
-	client := pb.NewBackendClient(conn)
-
-	// Load models
-	loadResp, err := client.LoadModel(context.Background(), &pb.ModelOptions{
-		ModelFile: modelDir,
-		Threads:   4,
+	It("treats an audio path as a clone reference (case-insensitive ext)", func() {
+		sp, ref := resolveVoice("/x/ref.WAV")
+		Expect(sp).To(BeEmpty())
+		Expect(ref).To(Equal("/x/ref.WAV"))
 	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("LoadModel failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !loadResp.Success {
-		t.Fatalf("LoadModel returned failure: %s", loadResp.Message)
-	}
-
-	// Synthesize speech
-	language := "en"
-	_, err = client.TTS(context.Background(), &pb.TTSRequest{
-		Text:     "Hello, this is a test of the Qwen3 text to speech system.",
-		Dst:      outputFile,
-		Language: &language,
+	It("recognizes mp3/flac/ogg/m4a", func() {
+		for _, p := range []string{"a.mp3", "b.flac", "c.ogg", "d.m4a"} {
+			sp, ref := resolveVoice(p)
+			Expect(sp).To(BeEmpty())
+			Expect(ref).To(Equal(p))
+		}
 	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TTS failed: %v", err)
-	}
+	It("returns empty for empty input", func() {
+		sp, ref := resolveVoice("  ")
+		Expect(sp).To(BeEmpty())
+		Expect(ref).To(BeEmpty())
+	})
+})
 
-	// Verify output file exists and has content
-	info, err := os.Stat(outputFile)
-	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatal("Output audio file was not created")
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Failed to stat output file: %v", err)
-	}
+var _ = Describe("parseOptions", func() {
+	It("extracts codec, use_fa, clamp_fp16, seed", func() {
+		o := parseOptions([]string{
+			"tokenizer:tok.gguf", "use_fa:false", "clamp_fp16:true",
+			"seed:7", "unknown:ignored",
+		})
+		Expect(o.codecPath).To(Equal("tok.gguf"))
+		Expect(o.useFA).To(BeFalse())
+		Expect(o.clampFP16).To(BeTrue())
+		Expect(o.seed).To(Equal(int64(7)))
+	})
+	It("accepts codec: as an alias for tokenizer:", func() {
+		Expect(parseOptions([]string{"codec:c.gguf"}).codecPath).To(Equal("c.gguf"))
+	})
+	It("defaults use_fa true and seed -1", func() {
+		o := parseOptions(nil)
+		Expect(o.useFA).To(BeTrue())
+		Expect(o.seed).To(Equal(int64(-1)))
+	})
+})
 
-	t.Logf("Output file size: %d bytes", info.Size())
+var _ = Describe("parseSampling", func() {
+	It("applies qt defaults when params are absent", func() {
+		s := parseSampling(nil, -1)
+		Expect(s.temperature).To(BeNumerically("~", 0.9, 1e-6))
+		Expect(s.topK).To(Equal(50))
+		Expect(s.topP).To(BeNumerically("~", 1.0, 1e-6))
+		Expect(s.repPen).To(BeNumerically("~", 1.05, 1e-6))
+		Expect(s.maxNew).To(Equal(2048))
+		Expect(s.seed).To(Equal(int64(-1)))
+	})
+	It("reads overrides and falls back to default seed", func() {
+		s := parseSampling(map[string]string{
+			"temperature": "0.5", "top_k": "10", "top_p": "0.8",
+			"repetition_penalty": "1.2", "max_new_tokens": "512",
+		}, 99)
+		Expect(s.temperature).To(BeNumerically("~", 0.5, 1e-6))
+		Expect(s.topK).To(Equal(10))
+		Expect(s.topP).To(BeNumerically("~", 0.8, 1e-6))
+		Expect(s.repPen).To(BeNumerically("~", 1.2, 1e-6))
+		Expect(s.maxNew).To(Equal(512))
+		Expect(s.seed).To(Equal(int64(99)))
+	})
+	It("reads an explicit seed override", func() {
+		Expect(parseSampling(map[string]string{"seed": "123"}, -1).seed).To(Equal(int64(123)))
+	})
+})
 
-	// WAV header is 44 bytes minimum; any real audio should be much larger
-	if info.Size() < 1000 {
-		t.Errorf("Output file too small (%d bytes), expected real audio data", info.Size())
-	}
-}
+var _ = Describe("wavHeader24k", func() {
+	It("emits a 44-byte streaming WAV header at 24 kHz mono 16-bit", func() {
+		h := wavHeader24k()
+		Expect(h).To(HaveLen(44))
+		Expect(string(h[0:4])).To(Equal("RIFF"))
+		Expect(string(h[8:12])).To(Equal("WAVE"))
+		Expect(string(h[12:16])).To(Equal("fmt "))
+		Expect(string(h[36:40])).To(Equal("data"))
+		var sampleRate uint32
+		Expect(binary.Read(bytes.NewReader(h[24:28]), binary.LittleEndian, &sampleRate)).To(Succeed())
+		Expect(sampleRate).To(Equal(uint32(24000)))
+	})
+})
+
+var _ = Describe("floatToPCM16LE", func() {
+	It("clamps and converts float PCM to little-endian int16 bytes", func() {
+		b := floatToPCM16LE([]float32{0, 1.0, -1.0, 2.0, -2.0})
+		Expect(b).To(HaveLen(10))
+		read := func(off int) int16 {
+			var v int16
+			_ = binary.Read(bytes.NewReader(b[off:off+2]), binary.LittleEndian, &v)
+			return v
+		}
+		Expect(read(0)).To(Equal(int16(0)))
+		Expect(read(2)).To(Equal(int16(32767)))
+		Expect(read(4)).To(Equal(int16(-32767)))
+		Expect(read(6)).To(Equal(int16(32767)))  // clamped from 2.0
+		Expect(read(8)).To(Equal(int16(-32767))) // clamped from -2.0
+	})
+})
diff --git a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/test.sh b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/test.sh
index aaebfc42a..dedad82c8 100755
--- a/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/test.sh
+++ b/backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/test.sh
@@ -2,51 +2,30 @@
 set -e
 
 CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+cd "$CURDIR"
 
 echo "Running qwen3-tts-cpp backend tests..."
 
-# The test requires:
-#   - QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR: path to directory containing GGUF model files
-#   - QWEN3TTS_BINARY: path to the qwen3-tts-cpp binary (defaults to ./qwen3-tts-cpp)
-#
-# Tests that require the model will be skipped if QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR is not set
-# or the directory does not contain the required model files.
-
-cd "$CURDIR"
-
-# Only auto-download models when QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR is not explicitly set
-if [ -z "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR" ]; then
-    export QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR="./qwen3-tts-models"
-
-    if [ ! -d "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR" ]; then
-        echo "Creating qwen3-tts-models directory for tests..."
-        mkdir -p "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR"
-        REPO_ID="endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp"
-        echo "Repository: ${REPO_ID}"
-        echo ""
-
-        # Files to download (smallest model for testing)
-        FILES=(
-            "qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf"
-            "qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf"
-        )
-
-        BASE_URL="https://huggingface.co/${REPO_ID}/resolve/main"
-
-        for file in "${FILES[@]}"; do
-            dest="${QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR}/${file}"
-            if [ -f "${dest}" ]; then
-                echo "  [skip] ${file} (already exists)"
-            else
-                echo "  [download] ${file}..."
-                curl -L -o "${dest}" "${BASE_URL}/${file}" --progress-bar
-                echo "  [done] ${file}"
-            fi
-        done
-    fi
+# Auto-download a small model pair only when QWEN3TTS_MODEL is not set.
+if [ -z "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL" ]; then
+    MODEL_DIR="./qwen3-tts-models"
+    mkdir -p "$MODEL_DIR"
+    REPO_ID="Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF"
+    BASE_URL="https://huggingface.co/${REPO_ID}/resolve/main"
+    FILES=( "qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf" "qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf" )
+    for file in "${FILES[@]}"; do
+        dest="${MODEL_DIR}/${file}"
+        if [ -f "${dest}" ]; then
+            echo "  [skip] ${file}"
+        else
+            echo "  [download] ${file}..."
+            curl -L -o "${dest}" "${BASE_URL}/${file}" --progress-bar
+        fi
+    done
+    export QWEN3TTS_MODEL="${MODEL_DIR}/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf"
+    export QWEN3TTS_CODEC="${MODEL_DIR}/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf"
 fi
 
-# Run Go tests
-go test -v -timeout 600s .
+go test -v -timeout 1200s .
 
 echo "All qwen3-tts-cpp tests passed."
diff --git a/backend/index.yaml b/backend/index.yaml
index 43716a7d1..19483ab03 100644
--- a/backend/index.yaml
+++ b/backend/index.yaml
@@ -768,14 +768,17 @@
 - &qwen3ttscpp
   name: "qwen3-tts-cpp"
   description: |
-    Qwen3-TTS C++ backend using GGML. Native C++ text-to-speech with voice cloning support.
-    Generates 24kHz mono audio from text with optional reference audio for voice cloning via ECAPA-TDNN speaker embeddings.
+    Qwen3-TTS C++ backend using GGML (qwentts.cpp). Native C++ text-to-speech
+    with streaming output, named speakers, voice design, and zero-shot voice
+    cloning. 24kHz mono, 11 languages with Mandarin dialects. 0.6B and 1.7B
+    models in Q8_0 / Q4_K_M.
   urls:
-    - https://github.com/predict-woo/qwen3-tts.cpp
+    - https://github.com/ServeurpersoCom/qwentts.cpp
   tags:
     - text-to-speech
     - tts
     - voice-cloning
+    - streaming
   alias: "qwen3-tts-cpp"
   capabilities:
     default: "cpu-qwen3-tts-cpp"
diff --git a/core/config/backend_capabilities.go b/core/config/backend_capabilities.go
index d714cf58d..234873ffa 100644
--- a/core/config/backend_capabilities.go
+++ b/core/config/backend_capabilities.go
@@ -396,10 +396,10 @@ var BackendCapabilities = map[string]BackendCapability{
 		Description:      "Qwen TTS",
 	},
 	"qwen3-tts-cpp": {
-		GRPCMethods:      []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
+		GRPCMethods:      []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS, MethodTTSStream},
 		PossibleUsecases: []string{UsecaseTTS},
 		DefaultUsecases:  []string{UsecaseTTS},
-		Description:      "Qwen3 TTS C++ — text-to-speech, C++ backend",
+		Description:      "Qwen3 TTS C++ - text-to-speech with streaming, named speakers, voice design and cloning (qwentts.cpp / GGML)",
 	},
 	"faster-qwen3-tts": {
 		GRPCMethods:      []GRPCMethod{MethodTTS},
diff --git a/gallery/index.yaml b/gallery/index.yaml
index 1a3bf8db2..7f47ee1b2 100644
--- a/gallery/index.yaml
+++ b/gallery/index.yaml
@@ -3304,38 +3304,267 @@
     - filename: vibevoice-cpp-asr/tokenizer.gguf
       sha256: 37dc3b722d5677e37e29a57df55aa05c485116eeb5459e57ff8dde616b4986f6
       uri: huggingface://mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/tokenizer.gguf
-- name: qwen3-tts-cpp
+- &qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp
   url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/virtual.yaml@master
   urls:
-    - https://huggingface.co/endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp
-    - https://github.com/predict-woo/qwen3-tts.cpp
+    - https://huggingface.co/Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF
+    - https://github.com/ServeurpersoCom/qwentts.cpp
   description: |
-    Qwen3-TTS 0.6B (C++ / GGML) — native C++ text-to-speech from text input.
-    Generates 24kHz mono audio. Supports 10 languages (en, zh, ja, ko, de, fr, es, it, pt, ru).
-    Uses F16 GGUF models (~2 GB total).
-  license: apache-2.0
+    Qwen3-TTS 0.6B Base (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp). Native C++ text-to-speech with
+    streaming output and zero-shot voice cloning (set `voice` to a 24kHz reference
+    .wav). 24kHz mono, 11 languages with Mandarin dialects. Q8_0 (~0.95 GB talker).
+  license: mit
   icon: https://huggingface.co/avatars/c299494fd1e72375832499c75b3425d6.svg
   tags:
     - tts
     - text-to-speech
+    - voice-cloning
+    - streaming
     - qwen3-tts
     - qwen3-tts-cpp
     - gguf
-  last_checked: "2026-04-30"
+  last_checked: "2026-06-13"
   overrides:
     backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
     known_usecases:
       - tts
     name: qwen3-tts-cpp
     parameters:
-      model: qwen3-tts-cpp
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q8_0.gguf
   files:
-    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf
-      sha256: 0b89770118463af8f2467d824a8de57d96df6a09f927a9769a3f7b7fffa7087d
-      uri: huggingface://endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp/qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf
-    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf
-      sha256: d1ad9660bd99343f4851d5a4b17e31f65648feb3559f6ea062ae6575e5cd9d90
-      uri: huggingface://endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp/qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: d54dbaf10591421fa764ed630d764efa717ae40cd959bd48c66d4eb1af226426
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q8_0.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 1883beeed99348fc35e23dd225e9082f93f6f8c109330a33d935baa8acdbfd94
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-0.6b-base-q4
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 0.6B Base (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q4_K_M (~0.6 GB talker).
+    Streaming + voice cloning, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-0.6b-base-q4
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-0.6b-base-q4/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-0.6b-base-q4/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: 4b468ec7b1f62b90ef4ca316c0aa57deadfd54b2cf9651703ea753cedaf04226
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-0.6b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-0.6b-base-q4/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: cf3788b4d50aaa665fb6e57c170396aae03a3555fea52d2b5d0cda902d658039
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 1.7B Base (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q8_0 (~2.0 GB talker).
+    Higher-quality streaming + voice cloning, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base/qwen-talker-1.7b-base-Q8_0.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base/qwen-talker-1.7b-base-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 4b9a33a236908dd9435a42f7a396e38038329d053b704342a6413c08544c4fda
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-1.7b-base-Q8_0.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 1883beeed99348fc35e23dd225e9082f93f6f8c109330a33d935baa8acdbfd94
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base-q4
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 1.7B Base (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q4_K_M (~1.2 GB talker).
+    Streaming + voice cloning, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base-q4
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base-q4/qwen-talker-1.7b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base-q4/qwen-talker-1.7b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: ea393ebaf2167ea23ce9fc18b093822851358a950d7075cd47ab4f6ce23e887d
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-1.7b-base-Q4_K_M.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-base-q4/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: cf3788b4d50aaa665fb6e57c170396aae03a3555fea52d2b5d0cda902d658039
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 0.6B CustomVoice (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q8_0. Named speakers
+    selected via the `voice` field: serena, vivian, uncle_fu, ryan, aiden,
+    ono_anna, sohee, eric (sichuan dialect), dylan (beijing dialect). Streaming,
+    24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  tags:
+    - tts
+    - text-to-speech
+    - named-speakers
+    - streaming
+    - qwen3-tts
+    - qwen3-tts-cpp
+    - gguf
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice/qwen-talker-0.6b-customvoice-Q8_0.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice/qwen-talker-0.6b-customvoice-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 4eb38675c736ed6ac72012846ac8d6ef80e5af8bc05726870f0b3a6569588519
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-0.6b-customvoice-Q8_0.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 1883beeed99348fc35e23dd225e9082f93f6f8c109330a33d935baa8acdbfd94
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice-q4
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 0.6B CustomVoice (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q4_K_M. Named speakers
+    via the `voice` field (serena, vivian, ryan, aiden, eric, dylan, ...).
+    Streaming, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  tags:
+    - tts
+    - text-to-speech
+    - named-speakers
+    - streaming
+    - qwen3-tts
+    - qwen3-tts-cpp
+    - gguf
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice-q4
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice-q4/qwen-talker-0.6b-customvoice-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice-q4/qwen-talker-0.6b-customvoice-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: b3a7e6613d80f8a703c06267fc1e94d48ce91932ab82ab6e31c50f4ca4868e1e
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-0.6b-customvoice-Q4_K_M.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice-q4/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: cf3788b4d50aaa665fb6e57c170396aae03a3555fea52d2b5d0cda902d658039
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q8_0. Named speakers via
+    the `voice` field (serena, vivian, ryan, aiden, eric, dylan, ...). Streaming,
+    24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  tags:
+    - tts
+    - text-to-speech
+    - named-speakers
+    - streaming
+    - qwen3-tts
+    - qwen3-tts-cpp
+    - gguf
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice/qwen-talker-1.7b-customvoice-Q8_0.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice/qwen-talker-1.7b-customvoice-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: cab2cff67a0a557310febe558dc83076b28ed790e491867eb2751759f4cd89fa
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-1.7b-customvoice-Q8_0.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 1883beeed99348fc35e23dd225e9082f93f6f8c109330a33d935baa8acdbfd94
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice-q4
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q4_K_M. Named speakers
+    via the `voice` field. Streaming, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  tags:
+    - tts
+    - text-to-speech
+    - named-speakers
+    - streaming
+    - qwen3-tts
+    - qwen3-tts-cpp
+    - gguf
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice-q4
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice-q4/qwen-talker-1.7b-customvoice-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice-q4/qwen-talker-1.7b-customvoice-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: cc328834a631bc08bf9f43e62fa23f8a1383d9b429864ce6690cfb172077fc4a
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-1.7b-customvoice-Q4_K_M.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-customvoice-q4/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: cf3788b4d50aaa665fb6e57c170396aae03a3555fea52d2b5d0cda902d658039
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 1.7B VoiceDesign (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q8_0. Synthesises a
+    speaker from a free-text attribute instruction - REQUIRES the OpenAI
+    `instructions` field (e.g. "male, young adult, moderate pitch"); requests
+    without it are rejected. Streaming, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  tags:
+    - tts
+    - text-to-speech
+    - voice-design
+    - streaming
+    - qwen3-tts
+    - qwen3-tts-cpp
+    - gguf
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign/qwen-talker-1.7b-voicedesign-Q8_0.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign/qwen-talker-1.7b-voicedesign-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 575610ab1ddcca4dca6bd9a64bcd859d93bbad8764f9cab24e1dbc0c51f62276
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-1.7b-voicedesign-Q8_0.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: 1883beeed99348fc35e23dd225e9082f93f6f8c109330a33d935baa8acdbfd94
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q8_0.gguf
+- !!merge <<: *qwenttscpp_gallery
+  name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign-q4
+  description: |
+    Qwen3-TTS 1.7B VoiceDesign (C++ / GGML, qwentts.cpp), Q4_K_M. Synthesises a
+    speaker from a free-text attribute instruction - REQUIRES the `instructions`
+    field. Streaming, 24kHz mono, 11 languages.
+  tags:
+    - tts
+    - text-to-speech
+    - voice-design
+    - streaming
+    - qwen3-tts
+    - qwen3-tts-cpp
+    - gguf
+  overrides:
+    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
+    known_usecases:
+      - tts
+    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign-q4
+    parameters:
+      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign-q4/qwen-talker-1.7b-voicedesign-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign-q4/qwen-talker-1.7b-voicedesign-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: 7605ed0cc5e72059f27468c27f70c070e05d1cc0c7b1c76bfb9cba717a59eee3
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-talker-1.7b-voicedesign-Q4_K_M.gguf
+    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-1.7b-voicedesign-q4/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: cf3788b4d50aaa665fb6e57c170396aae03a3555fea52d2b5d0cda902d658039
+      uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/qwen-tokenizer-12hz-Q4_K_M.gguf
 - name: omnivoice-cpp
   url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/virtual.yaml@master
   urls:
@@ -3402,39 +3631,6 @@
     - filename: omnivoice-cpp-hq/omnivoice-tokenizer-BF16.gguf
       sha256: c2179e4cf528b19fea22a5be94c34c083877bb5fc28ac0245d2b4299a262dcec
       uri: huggingface://Serveurperso/OmniVoice-GGUF/omnivoice-tokenizer-BF16.gguf
-- name: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice
-  url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/virtual.yaml@master
-  urls:
-    - https://huggingface.co/endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp
-    - https://github.com/predict-woo/qwen3-tts.cpp
-  description: |
-    Qwen3-TTS 0.6B Custom Voice (C++ / GGML) — text-to-speech with voice cloning support.
-    Generates 24kHz mono audio with optional reference audio for voice cloning via ECAPA-TDNN speaker embeddings.
-    Supports 10 languages (en, zh, ja, ko, de, fr, es, it, pt, ru).
-  license: apache-2.0
-  icon: https://huggingface.co/avatars/c299494fd1e72375832499c75b3425d6.svg
-  tags:
-    - tts
-    - text-to-speech
-    - voice-cloning
-    - qwen3-tts
-    - qwen3-tts-cpp
-    - gguf
-  last_checked: "2026-04-30"
-  overrides:
-    backend: qwen3-tts-cpp
-    known_usecases:
-      - tts
-    name: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice
-    parameters:
-      model: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice
-  files:
-    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice/qwen3-tts-0.6b-customvoice-f16.gguf
-      sha256: 40b985b71be0970d41eb042488766db556cf17290aa1cff631cabfa0bd3b0431
-      uri: huggingface://endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp/qwen3-tts-0.6b-customvoice-f16.gguf
-    - filename: qwen3-tts-cpp-customvoice/qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf
-      sha256: d1ad9660bd99343f4851d5a4b17e31f65648feb3559f6ea062ae6575e5cd9d90
-      uri: huggingface://endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp/qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf
 - name: qwen3-coder-next-mxfp4_moe
   url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/virtual.yaml@master
   urls: