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# Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash)

Alibaba (Qwen), Qwen-Audio 3.1 family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2026-09-23.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (streaming) | `qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-streaming` |  | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/models |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / QwenCloud (file transcription) | `qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-filetrans` |  | https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-filetrans |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: audio
- Output: text
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: no
- Licence: proprietary

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 16. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Before it from Alibaba: Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next (2026-09-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next/
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.

## What stands out

- 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: https://the-decoder.com/alibaba-launches-qwen-audio-3-1-with-five-new-models-and-slashes-ai-audio-prices-by-up-to-95-percent/

## Notes

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). Previous: qwen-audio-3.0-asr-flash; open-weights alternative Qwen3-ASR (see qwen3-asr). Pricing not verified on an official page.

Hosted speech recognition in the Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack.

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

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-asr/