Alibaba's Qwen Launches Five-Model Audio Stack, Slashes TTS 70% and ASR up to 95%
Alibaba_Qwen · x · 2026-09-23
Alibaba's Qwen team announced Qwen-Audio-3.1: fully upgraded ASR, TTS, and Realtime models, plus two newcomers — TTS-Next for audio creation and ASR-Next for audio understanding — forming a five-model stack covering understanding, generation, interaction, and creation. Pricing drops sharply: TTS 70% off, Realtime 85% off, ASR up to 95% off.
Highlights:
- ASR: stronger multilingual/dialect recognition, native polishing that strips fillers and repetitions for cleaner transcripts.
- ASR-Next: multi-speaker ASR with speaker labels and timestamps, plus emotion, ambient and machine-sound understanding for sound captioning, event localization, audio QA and reasoning.
- TTS: multilingual/dialect synthesis with natural cross-lingual voice transfer; emotion, speed, and style controllable via simple instructions.
- TTS-Next: unified LM + diffusion framework.
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