Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent

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. ASR-Next adds…

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. ASR-Next adds multi-speaker identification with timestamps and detects emotions, ambient sounds, and machine noise. TTS handles multilingual synthesis […] The article Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent appeared first on The Decoder.

Source: The Decoder — Published September 23, 2026 at 12:31 UTC — Category: Models