Alibaba Launches Qwen Audio 3.1 Family, Slashes AI Audio Prices Up to 95%
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-23
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models covering ASR, TTS, and real-time interaction, while cutting AI audio prices by up to 95%.
- The ASR model improves multilingual and dialect recognition and auto-cleans filler words and repetitions
- ASR-Next adds multi-speaker identification with timestamps, detecting emotions, ambient sounds, and machine noise
- TTS handles multilingual synthesis
- The steep price cut signals a push to grab share in the speech API market
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