{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-10-25T23:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/fun-realtime-asr/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/fun-realtime-asr/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"fun-realtime-asr","name":"Fun-Realtime-ASR-preview (Fun-ASR-Flash / Fun-ASR-Realtime)","org":"Alibaba Cloud (Tongyi Lab)","family":"Fun-ASR","released":"2026-07-06","status":"current","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["audio"],"modality_out":["text"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"flash_per_second_intl":0.000035,"flash_per_second_beijing":0.00003,"realtime_per_second_intl":0.00009,"realtime_per_second_beijing":0.000047,"unit":"USD per second of input audio, list prices excl. promotions (fun-asr-flash-2026-06-15 from its model page; fun-asr-realtime from the Model Studio pricing page). Artificial Analysis lists $2.82 per 1,000 min, which equals $0.000047/s (the Beijing fun-asr-realtime price)","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing"},"price_line":"$0.0000 flash per second intl","access":[{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (offline, HTTP)","model_id":"fun-asr-flash-2026-06-15","docs":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/fun-asr-flash"},{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (streaming, WebSocket)","model_id":"fun-asr-realtime","endpoint":"wss://{WorkspaceId}.ap-southeast-1.maas.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/inference","docs":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/fun-asr-realtime-python-sdk"},{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (model list)","url":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/asr-model/"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"#1 on Artificial Analysis AA-WER (1.7%)","detail":"Listed by Artificial Analysis as Fun-Realtime-ASR-preview, #1 on its non-streaming speech-to-text leaderboard with AA-WER 1.7% (1.8% on long-form Earnings22), speed factor ~20x real time, $2.82 per 1,000 min (read 2026-10-25).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text"},{"name":"One model for 30 languages and 16 Chinese dialects","detail":"July 2026 upgrade: single streaming model for 30 languages and 16 dialects, 88.62% average character accuracy across the dialects (Shanghainese 92.41%), first-word latency in the hundreds of milliseconds, hot words and conversation-history context (Alibaba figures via IT Home).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.ithome.com/0/973/132.htm"},{"name":"Prompt-context offline transcription","detail":"fun-asr-flash-2026-06-15 accepts prompt context, covers 30 languages plus the main Chinese dialect groups and 20+ regional Mandarin accents; files up to 5 minutes.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/fun-asr-flash"}],"entry":null,"notes":"Artificial Analysis speech-to-text (https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text), read 2026-10-25: Fun-Realtime-ASR-preview rank #1, AA-WER 1.7%, $2.82 per 1,000 min. Name mapping is medium confidence: AA never gives an API id; IT Home (2026-07-06) says the AA entry 'Fun-realtime-ASR-preview' is the former name of the offline Fun-ASR-Flash (fun-asr-flash-2026-06-15), and AiCoin reports Fun-ASR-Flash took the top AA-WER spot, but AA's $2.82/1k min matches the Beijing fun-asr-realtime price, not fun-asr-flash. Alibaba's docs do not use the name 'Fun-Realtime-ASR' or label any Fun-ASR model preview, so status is set to current (caller had proposed preview, after AA's name). Other ids: fun-asr-realtime-2026-02-28 (zh/en/ja + dialects), fun-asr-mtl-realtime-2025-12-10, fun-asr-flash-8k-realtime(-2026-01-28) for 8 kHz telephony, offline fun-asr (diarization, 12 h files). fun-asr-realtime international price includes 10 free hours for 90 days. No Beijing endpoint given on the SDK page. Released date = upgrade announcement 2026-07-06 (IT Home); the fun-asr-realtime line dates back to 2025-09-15 snapshots. No timeline entry yet; related: qwen-audio-3-1-asr, fun-cosyvoice3.","verified":"2026-10-25","body_md":"Alibaba's Fun-ASR speech recognition (Bailian / Model Studio), top of Artificial Analysis' word-error-rate ranking in October 2026.\n\nSources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/asr-model/ · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/fun-asr-flash · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing · https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/fun-asr-realtime-python-sdk · https://www.ithome.com/0/973/132.htm · https://www.aicoin.com/en/news-flash/2969731 · https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/fun-realtime-asr/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":46,"newer":[{"id":"eleven-realtime-v1-max","name":"Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini","org":"ElevenLabs","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/"},{"id":"voxtral-mini-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/"},{"id":"voxtral-small-transcribe-3","name":"Voxtral Small Transcribe 3","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/"},{"id":"voxtral-mini-tts-3","name":"Voxtral TTS 3 (Voxtral Mini TTS 3)","org":"Mistral AI","released":"2026-10-20","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-tts-3/"},{"id":"gpt-live-1-1","name":"GPT-Live-1.1","org":"OpenAI","released":"2026-10-15","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-live-1-1/"}],"before":null,"after":null,"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}