The A.I. Daily
Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1, cuts prices
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, five models for speech recognition, text-to-speech and real-time interaction. ASR improves multilingual and dialect recognition and cleans filler words; ASR-Next adds multi-speaker ID, timestamps and emotion/ambient detection, with AI audio prices cut up to 95%.