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title: "Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent"
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# Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3\.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent

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**Published:** 2026-09-23T12:31:20.000Z
**Category:** Releases
**Topics:** alibaba, qwen\-audio\-31, speech\-recognition, text\-to\-speech, llm\-pricing

## Summary

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\.

## Sources

- [Story 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/>)