Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR (Flash)
Speech and audio
qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash-streaming
Price not published
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next
Scene-level audio creation (audiobooks, podcasts, games, ads) rather than plain TTS.
Model idqwen-audio-3.1-tts-next
Price$0.848 in, $1.696 out per 1M tokens
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
19newer speech and audio models since its release
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)28 Oct 2026
- Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B22 Oct 2026
- Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3)20 Oct 2026
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 320 Oct 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models
- Before it from Alibaba
- Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate (Flash Realtime)19 Sep 2026
- After it from Alibaba
- Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS (Plus / Flash)23 Sep 2026
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
Where to use Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next, with its model id.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | qwen-audio-3.1-tts-next |
alibabacloud.com |
Pricing
| Input | $0.848 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.696 per 1M tokens |
As published: “USD per 1M tokens (China/Beijing region price shown in docs; international price not listed)”.
Source: alibabacloud.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and audio
- Output
- Audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- 22 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.
One-pass speech + sound effects + ambience
‘AudioGen’ model (LM + diffusion) that generates complete audio - speech, multi-speaker dialogue, podcasts, sound effects and ambient soundscapes - in a single pass from text, timestamps and up to 3 reference clips.
Notes
Chinese and English only; max 3,000 input characters; output up to 240 s for podcasts, 120 s otherwise. Verified 3.1 ASR ids: qwen-audio-3.1-asr-flash(-streaming/-filetrans). Update 2026-10-25: qwen-audio-3.1-tts-plus and qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash are now listed in the Model Studio docs and pricing page; see qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus.
Sources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next
Not yet checked against an official source: Comparable to ByteDance Seed Audio 1.0 (Jul 2026) and StepAudio 3 Gen. Sibling TTS model Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS (plain TTS, ~70% cheaper than 3.0) exists but its exact API id was not verified: as of 2026-09-29 the international Model Studio docs (models page, qwen-tts page) list only qwen-audio-3.0-tts-flash / -plus, and neither qwen-audio-3.1-tts-flash/-plus nor an ASR-Next id resolves on QwenCloud (404).