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

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> Published: 2026-09-23 12:31:20+00:00

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 […]

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