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

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models spanning speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction, and cut AI audio prices by up to 95 percent. The ASR model improves multilingual and dialect recognition and automatically removes filler words and repetitions, while ASR-Next adds multi-speaker identification with timestamps and detects emotions, ambient sounds, and machine noise. TTS handles multilingual synthesis.