Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent
Alibaba's Qwen team released five Qwen-Audio-3.1 speech models and cut audio prices by up to 95 percent.
Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen-Audio-3.1, a five-model lineup for speech recognition, text-to-speech, and real-time conversation. The ASR model targets multilingual and dialect recognition and removes filler words, while ASR-Next adds speaker timestamps plus emotion, ambient-sound, and machine-noise detection. TTS supports prompted emotion, speed, and style, and TTS-Next combines a language model with diffusion to produce voice, effects, and background audio. On Qwen Cloud, TTS prices drop about 70 percent, Realtime about 85 percent, and ASR up to 95 percent.
- Five Qwen-Audio-3.1 models cover ASR, TTS, and realtime speech.
- ASR-Next timestamps speakers and detects emotion and ambient noise.
- TTS-Next generates voice, effects, and background audio together.
- ASR pricing falls by up to 95 percent on Qwen Cloud.
- Vendors
- Alibaba
- Products
- Qwen Cloud
- AI models
- Qwen-Audio-3.1
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Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released Qwen-Audio-3. 1, a lineup of five models for speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction. The ASR model improves multilingual and dialect recognition and automatically cleans up filler words and repetitions.
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