{"slug": "alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by", "title": "Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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 […]\n\nThe article [Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent](https://the-decoder.com/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-five-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by-up-to-95-percent/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-five-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by-up-to-95-percent/", "published_at": "2026-09-23 12:31:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-23 13:00:30.920589+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "natural-language-processing", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen-Audio-3.1", "ASR-Next"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by.jsonld"}}