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Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen-Audio 3.1 familyCurrentSpeech and audioReleased 23 Sep 2026

Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash)

Hosted speech recognition in the Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack.

Model idqwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-streaming

PricePrice not published

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

16newer speech and audio models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models

Before it from Alibaba
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next22 Sep 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

2 ways to use Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash), with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash)
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (streaming) qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-streaming alibabacloud.com
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / QwenCloud (file transcription) qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-filetrans qwencloud.com

Pricing

Price not published.

No price source linked. Checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Audio
Output
Text
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
23 September 2026
Status
Current
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Multilingual + dialect ASR with disfluency cleanup

    Improved multilingual and Chinese-dialect recognition that automatically removes filler words and repetitions; launched with up to 95% price cut.

    Source: the-decoder.com

Notes

Previous: qwen-audio-3.0-asr-flash; open-weights alternative Qwen3-ASR (see qwen3-asr).

Sources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models ยท https://the-decoder.com/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-five-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by-up-to-95-percent/

Not yet checked against an official source: Secondary sources report 30 languages + Chinese dialects and ~160 ms latency (unverified). Sibling Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Next adds speaker diarization with timestamps, emotion and sound-event detection (API id not verified). Pricing not verified on an official page.