Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1, Cuts Prices Across Entire Qwen-Audio Speech Model Lineup

Odaily News — Today, Qwen officially released the Qwen-Audio-3.1 series of large speech models. This upgrade not only brings comprehensive improvements to the three core models—automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time voice interaction (Realtime)—but also introduces two major new models: the audio creation model Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next and the audio understanding model Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Next. With five new speech models released simultaneously, they form a complete audio capability stack covering "understanding–generation–interaction–creation." To further reduce user costs, prices have been lowered across the entire Qwen-Audio speech model lineup, with TTS down approximately 70%, Realtime down approximately 85%, and ASR down by as much as 95%. (Qwen Large Models)