{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next/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":"qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next","name":"Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","family":"Qwen-Audio 3.1","released":"2026-09-22","status":"current","type":"audio/speech","modality_in":["text","audio"],"modality_out":["audio"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"input":0.848,"output":1.696,"unit":"USD per 1M tokens (China/Beijing region price shown in docs; international price not listed)","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next"},"price_line":"$0.848 in, $1.696 out per 1M tokens","access":[{"provider":"Alibaba Cloud Model Studio","model_id":"qwen-audio-3.1-tts-next","docs":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"One-pass speech + sound effects + ambience","detail":"'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.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next"}],"entry":"2026-09-23-qwen-audio-3-1","notes":"Chinese and English only; max 3,000 input characters; output up to 240 s for podcasts, 120 s otherwise. 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). 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.","verified":"2026-09-29","body_md":"Scene-level audio creation (audiobooks, podcasts, games, ads) rather than plain TTS.\n\nSources: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-next/","standing":{"kind":"speech and audio","newer_count":19,"newer":[{"id":"nemotron-3-5-transcribe","name":"NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B)","org":"NVIDIA","released":"2026-10-28","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/"},{"id":"hy-simulmt-30b-a3b","name":"Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B","org":"Tencent","released":"2026-10-22","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/"},{"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/"}],"before":{"id":"qwen3-8-livetranslate","name":"Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate (Flash Realtime)","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","released":"2026-09-19","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen3-8-livetranslate/"},"after":{"id":"qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus","name":"Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS (Plus / Flash)","org":"Alibaba (Qwen)","released":"2026-09-23","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/qwen-audio-3-1-tts-plus/"},"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}