Qwen-Audio-3.1: five-model audio stack with major price cuts
Alibaba released Qwen-Audio-3.1 with five models covering ASR, TTS, Realtime and the new ASR-Next and TTS-Next, alongside price cuts of about 70% for TTS, 85% for Realtime and up to 95% for ASR.
⚡ Meet Qwen-Audio-3.1! ASR, TTS & Realtime are fully upgraded, joined by two new models: TTS-Next for audio creation and ASR-Next for audio understanding. Five models, one complete audio stack: understanding, generation, interaction & creation. Plus big price cuts across the lineup: TTS ~70% off, Realtime ~85% off, and ASR up to 95% off. Highlights: 🥳 - ASR: stronger multilingual & dialect recognition, plus native polishing that auto-removes fillers & repetitions for cleaner, more logical transcripts. - ASR-Next: supports multi-speaker ASR with speaker labels, timestamps & aligned transcripts, and understands emotions, ambient & machine sounds for sound captioning, event localization, audio QA & reasoning. - TTS: multilingual & dialect synthesis with natural cross-lingual voice transfer; control emotion, speed & style via simple instructions. - TTS-Next: unified LM + diffusion framework generating voice, sound effects & background audio in one pass for audiobooks, podcasts, games & ads. - Realtime: speak & listen at once with anytime interruption, just like a real call; it even slows down and responds empathetically when it senses a low mood. Unlock the full potential of Qwen-Audio-3.1! 👇 - Blog: https://t.co/e0M8wvj8Kg - Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR: https://t.co/88lPQTPxyz - Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: https://t.co/Y63sdtK2AC - More APIs: coming soon @qwen_cloud